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单词 attenuate
释义
attenuate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/əˈten.ju.eɪt/us
/əˈten.ju.eɪt/
to make something less orweaker:
Radiation from thesunis attenuated by the earth'satmosphere.地球大气减弱了太阳辐射。
Theyproposemorepeacekeepingtroopsto attenuate theviolence.
to make somethinglongerandthinner:
Theartisthas attenuated thelimbs.
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  • Thetaxcodeis one of the fewtoolswe have in attenuatingincomeinequality.
  • Thenoisecan be supressed atsource, byscreeningit or attenuatingitspower.
  • Despite the government'seffortsto attenuate oreliminatetheworstpoliceabuses, theycontinued.
  • Engineersbeganto attenuate thestrengthofsignalsatchosenfrequencies.
  • Somefactorsareknownto attenuate thebiologicaleffectsofstress.
  • He attenuated thelineto along,thinstroke.
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Becoming and making less strong
Thin and fine
Narrow and thin

Related words

attenuated
attenuation
(Definition ofattenuatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
attenuate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/əˈten.ju.eɪt/us
/əˈten.ju.eɪt/
to make somethingsmaller,thinner, orweaker
使减少；使减弱；使降低
Radiation from thesunis attenuated by the earth'satmosphere.地球大气减弱了太阳辐射。

Examplesofattenuate

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Intuitively, the positive savings effect associated with the reduction in generational turnover attenuates the fall in aggregate savings induced by the lower rate of interest.
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Of these, the region of the country mayattenuatedifferences between months.
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More or less at birth, if the fetal exposure to attenuated (but prosodically informative) speech signals is set aside.
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The timbre will also vary over time if the magnitude response is not flat, since the harmonics of the signal willattenuateat different rates.
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Monetary incentives do not completely "crowd out" the subject's motive to please, but they are likely toattenuatethis motive considerably.
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This is a conservative approach that slightly attenuates the associations between parent psychopathology and offspring outcomes.
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This would aggravate competition for food between livestock and wildlife and potentiallyattenuatethe conservation benefits.
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Thus, the effects reported might be strengthened or attenuated if child counts were used for all variables.
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They could be attenuated using a greater number of connecting points.
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The use of an abbreviated assessment (with the expected increase in measurement error and reduced variance) likely attenuated the associations observed in the present study.
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Measurement errors in the starting and the minimum rates generallyattenuatethe corresponding estimated coefficients.
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Because this radial motion involves dissipation, some energy is removed from the waves, so that they are attenuated as they travel in the bubbly liquid.
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This investigation clearly identified the problem so that steps toattenuateit could be taken the following summer.
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This configuration colours the input sound, as it boosts certain frequencies and attenuates others, in a shape resembling the teeth of a comb.
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On the other hand, scoring artefacts may be attenuated by pooling alleles of similar size.
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