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lighten

/ˈlaɪ.tn̩/ 动词 B2

中文: 照亮、变亮、减轻

  1. To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate. (transitive) · to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets
  2. To become brighter or clearer; to brighten. (intransitive)
  3. To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning. (transitive)

复数 lighten · He/she/it lightens · 过去式 lightened · 过去分词 lightened · -ing形式 lightening

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动词形式

原形
lighten
He/she/it
lightens
过去式
lightened
过去分词
lightened
-ing形式
lightening

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The grasshoppers and sparrows entreated him not to cut down the tree that sheltered them, but to spare it, and they would sing to him and lighten his labours.
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第90页 · B2
My heart is lightened already since I have confided my trouble to you.
《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》,第49页 · B2
"You can't bluff me, Count Sylvius." Holmes's eyes, as he gazed at him, contracted and lightened until they were like two menacing points of steel.
《The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes》,第38页 · B2
But before the doctor and the father could reach the room, the servants who were on the same floor had entered, and seeing Valentine pale and motionless on her bed, they lifted up their hands towards heaven and stood transfixed, as though struck by lightening.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第1007页 · C1

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