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单词 consolatory
释义
consolatory
adjective
formal
uk
/kənˈsɒl.ə.tər.i/us
/kənˈsɑː.lə.tɔːr.i/
making orintendedto make someone who issadordisappointedfeelbetter:
安慰的，抚慰的
a consolatoryremark安慰的话
Myfriendcame over and gave me a consolatorypaton the back.我朋友走过来拍了拍我的后背安慰我。
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consolation
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(Definition ofconsolatoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconsolatory

consolatory
Some were intended for the mourning relatives and belong to a long tradition of sendingconsolatoryletters or poetry to the bereaved.
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Functioning both as narratives and allegories, these vases have aconsolatoryeffect by presenting a fortiori tragic examples of human suffering.
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In actual fact, it seems increasingly lessconsolatoryseeing as, three years later, very little headway has been made towards attaining that objective.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It was charming and mellifluous as always—a speech which was explanatory, deprecatory, mitigatory andconsolatory, yet to me, at any rate, not wholly satisfactory.
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Theconsolatorypayment does not, however, preclude a request for more generous compensation for worry and distress.
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A new type ofconsolatorypayment will be introduced.
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The special payments scheme was revised in 1997 to introduceconsolatorypayments for inconvenience and distress.
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I have a constituent whose life was put on hold for more than two years, during which he lost his driving licence, who was offered aconsolatorypayment of £250.
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In addition to payments for financial loss,consolatorypayments may be considered in exceptional circumstances where an official error has adversely affected the life of the client.
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Orators in antiquity often deliveredconsolatoryspeeches to comfort mourners at funerals or in cases of public mourning.
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The second subject could be described as being aconsolatoryversion of the first.
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It isconsolatory, however, to know that in his last moments he was able to express contrition, and his sorrowing friends have hope in his death.
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