v.(动词)

1. 减轻
2. 缓和
3. 辩解
4. 掩饰

Verb:

1. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;

   "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
   

2. provide physical relief, as from pain;

   "This pill will relieve your headaches"
   

1.

1. 减轻：originate#发起 |palliate#减轻 | palpitate#跳动;颤抖

2. 抚慰：coax 哄骗 |palliate 抚慰 | PALATABLE 美味的

3.

3. 减轻(痛苦),掩饰(罪行)：palings 篱笆,木栅栏 |palliate 减轻(痛苦),掩饰(罪行) | palliation 减轻,缓和

4. 减轻;缓和：palate n.腭 |palliate .减轻;缓和 | palliatie a. 姑息的;治标的

• That which cannot be cured must be palliated.

  出自：J. E. T. Rogers

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.

组织对作家减轻作家的寂寞但是我怀疑如果他们改良他的写作。

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.

作家的组织固然可以排遣他们的孤独, 但是我怀疑它们未必能够促进作家的创作.

I shall never attempt to palliate my own foibles by exposing the error of another.

我从不想暴露别人的错误,以图掩饰自己的缺点.

I should never attempt to palliate my own foible by expose the error of another.

我从不想暴露别人的错误,以图减轻自己的缺点.

I don't wish to palliate them, I assure you.

我不想掩饰, 我可以向你保证.

Objective: to palliate sufferings of patients, to enhance the success rate of esophagus electrode insertion.

目的: 减少病人痛苦, 提高插食管电极的成功率.

Tow black don't make a white. You can't palliate your own badness with other's bad deed.

两黑不等于一白. 你不能用别人的恶行来掩饰自己的劣迹.