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1 In Ms. Wohl’s play, it has a flattening effect, the verisimilitude of the casting lessening the theatricality of a piece so dependent on make-believe.

2 Angles is their most adventurous record yet, forays into new territory – 80s synth, funk, even the odd shade of reggae – scarcely lessening the sense of exhilaration.

3 The talks have resulted in a lessening of suspicion.

谈话消减了彼此的怀疑.

4 We may never know exactly how Vermeer achieved his magic, but Jenison’s experiment makes a compelling argument, without ever lessening the beauty of the art.

5 When my husband picked me up from the hospital after my discharge, I climbed into his truck feeling positive, sensing the aftermath’s intensity was lessening.

6 The others received “reappraisal training,” in which they “practiced reinterpreting personally stressful events” with the goal of lessening their negative emotional reaction.

7 Mary: : I know. But why your sudden interest in lessening your salt intake?

玛丽：这我知道。但你为什么突然想减少盐的摄取量？ ？

8 Prices at the wholesale level rose 0.2 percent last month, the Labor Department said, lessening worries about deflation.

美国劳工部公布，上个月批发价格增长0.2%，减轻了对通货紧缩的担忧情绪。

9 Recently, however, the polarity between the two fictional types has been lessening.

10 There are methods in psychology for lessening and softening and integrating such traumatic memories by going over them, desensitizing the patient to them.

11 In Seoul, the Moon and Pak families opened the Universal Ballet School, lessening the need to send dancers to Washington.

12 In the school of hard knocks where I had become a Master of Dodging, I had also learned to feign injury, as a way of lessening the severity of a beating.

13 In modern England this preoccupation is lessening as the public schools have become less isolated, but the old boys in William Trevor’s novel are very old boys, indeed, and hardly belong to modern England.

14 According to this kind of background, the author tries to find new methods for lessening the state-owned share.

基于这样一种背景，本文对我国国有股减持方法进行了探索。

15 AP: Speaking of rough places, do you think the brutality of life in kitchens is lessening?

16 Everybody wanted to get ahead, but lessening inequality of opportunity, in the abstract, was, by itself, not enough of a goad.

17 “With more than one out of four Philadelphia families struggling at or below the poverty line, lessening the direct impact on residents was the mayor’s priority,” Ms. Cox wrote in an email.

18 The effect, he says, is a lessening of common stressors in these fraught times, though he does not rule out someone making a big, comical noise if things get too quiet.

19 “That is not an unnatural surmise,” said Fitzwilliam, “but it is a lessening of the honour of my cousin’s triumph very sadly.”

20 The team believes the pain-lessening effect occurs because swearing triggers the ''fight or flight'' response.

该研究团队认为这种缓解痛苦的效果的出现是由于咒骂可以激发一种“战斗或者逃跑”的反应。

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