例文・使い方で印象づける「lessen」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...I only wish this young man would go back andleave me; absence, perhaps, may lessen the pain I now feel;though I fear it will not have much effect... 
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...If you are ruined, monsieur, look at the affair manfully, for you too, mordioux! belong to posterity, and have no right to lessen yourself in any way...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...,the slave-trade] will lessen the value of slaves, andultimately destroy the institution...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...Yet no distrust was shown, and my poverty did not lessen my influence...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...They're more liberal there, perhaps because they have many more blacksthan whites, and would like to lessen the disproportion...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...This would very much lessen the value of me in market...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
...Neither the presence of the unclenor young Lapie could at all lessen the gross language of the officers,or stay the rude hands of those who wished to examine the property thusoffered for sale...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...By being thus dipped, they receive acoating which protects them from the fly, prevents dripping, and tendsto lessen all external injurious influences...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Having tornout the heart and lungs with the hand, make the rib cartilages on the one sideoverlap those on the other, so as to lessen the thickness of the chest, andproceed to extract the body...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...The oblong hut from whichit came rocked and almost fell; then, as the noise began to lessen,teetered on its foundations and half-slipped into the ragged hole thathad been bored inside...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...And my desperate needof doing something; getting to her; seeing her, being with her; havingher near my own size again as though the blessed normality of thatwould rationalize and lessen her danger...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
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