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To ameliorate something is to make a bad situation better, or less harmful — not perfect, just less bad. News writers, doctors, and officials like this formal verb. You ameliorate poverty, pain, crowded wards, a harsh law's effects. You do not ameliorate a good meal, and you rarely use it for ordinary self-improvement; improve is the everyday word. Though actually, English already had a plainer verb, meliorate, from Latin for better. Speakers reshaped it after French améliorer, and the dressed-up form is the one that survived in careful writing.
改善；紓緩（針對已經不好的情況；不是日常口語的「變好」）
組成A reshaping of older English meliorate after French améliorer; both sit on Latin melior (better).
同家族的字
- ameliorationthe noun: the improvement, or the act of making things less bad
- melioratethe older English verb this one was altered from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ameliorateverb/əˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/
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To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
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To become better; improve.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。