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 have weighed the risks and studied how to lessen them... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...He was now about fifty yards from me, and I made shiftto lessen the distance...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
..."They often discussed the price I would bring, and that that pricemight not lessen, they guarded me jealously from one another sothe journeys were made as little fatiguing for me as possible...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...You may say my own shame should silence me; I speak to lessen my shame in your eyes, if I can...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...,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」
...The abundance of these animals, and also of antelopes, shows the insufficiency of the bow and arrow to lessen their numbers...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Nor did the very common sight of wooden crosses along the path, indicating sudden death by accident or crime, tend to lessen the sense of insecurity...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...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」
...Other agents in chemical combination may tend tointensify, lessen, or wholly neutralize the poisonous effect...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...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」
...They also lessen the bird's specific gravity, which must be of some help in flying...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...And in the gannet, which drops into the sea from a great height after fish, these air-bags lessen the shock on striking the water...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...Multiply these hornsover the surface of the body, lessen their size, and crown them withhairs, and we have our Io moth, so destructive to corn...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...This may account for his being stripped no otherwise than of his armour,having retired to his tent in order to repose himself upon his bed, and lessen the fatiguesof the preceding day...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
...Strange lights,causing weird effects, but producing no damage at all, save to lessen tosome extent the courage of Earthlings, because they did not understandthese things...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930」
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