词汇 | abating |
释义 | abating present participle ofabate abate verb[ I ] formaluk /əˈbeɪt/ us /əˈbeɪt/ to become less strong: 减少;减弱;减轻;减退 The storm/wind/rain has started to abate.暴风雨/风/雨开始减弱了。 The fighting in the area shows no sign of abating.这个地区的战事没有任何缓和的迹象。 See also unabatedformal Becoming and making less strong abate abatement adulterant adulterate adulterated be fading away/fastidiom downtoner dull ease emasculation enervate enervating hedge melt relieve tone something down totter tottering turn to jellyidiom undimmed Related wordabatement Examples of abatingabating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. However, we will disregard that possibility as plants always have other ways of abating emissions than reducing production. We conclude with estimates of the marginal cost of abating additional carbon emissions using crop residues. The other five sources considered in this study would compensate for this by abating more than their legislated requirements. All this can be interpreted as an attempt to diminish the cost of abating pollution from buses and trucks. By 1970, the riots had subsided but the war on crime campaign was in full swing and showed no sign of abating. They suggested a range of incentive-based policy instruments for abating emissions other than an emissions tax, which is the existing policy for emission control. At the same time, over the last decade global inequalities grew wider, and they show no sign of abating. Evident from these two tables is the fact that as policy becomes stricter, the number of plants abating increases. A justification for this assumption is that abating costs by the abating firms are cheaper. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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