relief
n. 宽慰,解脱; 减轻; 救济; 轻松场面; 接替人; 解围; 浮雕; 醒目; 突出品质
If you feel a sense of relief, you feel happy because something unpleasant has not happened or is no longer happening.
I breathed a sigh of relief...
我如释重负地松了口气。
The news will come as a great relief to the French authorities...
这个消息会让法国当局大大松一口气。
If something provides relief from pain or distress, it stops the pain or distress.
This brought considerable relief from the pain.
这相当大地缓解了疼痛。
...a self-help programme which can give lasting relief from the torment of hay fever.
可以持续缓解枯草热病痛的自助项目
Relief is money, food, or clothing that is provided for people who are very poor, or who have been affected by war or a natural disaster.
Relief agencies are stepping up efforts to provide food, shelter and agricultural equipment.
救济机构正加大力度提供食物、住所和农用器械。
...famine relief.
饥荒救济
A relief worker is someone who does your work when you go home, or who is employed to do it instead of you when you are sick.
No relief drivers were available.
找不到代班司机。
A relief is a sculpture that is carved out of a flat vertical surface.
1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced;
2. the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress);
3. (law) redress awarded by a court;
4. someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult);
5. assistance in time of difficulty;
6. a pause for relaxation;
7. a change for the better
8. aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped;
9. the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance);
10. sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
11. the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged;
comfort, ease, leisure, relaxation, relief, rest
这些名词均含"舒适,安逸,悠闲"之意。
in relief
(艺术)浮雕的,凸雕的
(棒球)充当替补投手
on relief
接受公共救济的:因为需要或贫困而接受公共救济的
They made no plea for relief.
他们并没有申请救济.
The momentary relief was followed by worse suffering.
短暂的缓解之后接着是更为剧烈的痛苦.
We all make a sigh of relief when we heard that he was safe.
听说他平安无事,我们都松了一口气.
She constantly invoked death for her relief and deliverance.
她常常想在死亡中寻求解脱.
We made a contribution to the famine relief fund.
我们给饥荒赈济基金捐了款.