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To lighten means to make something lighter in some way. This could be weight (lighten your bag by taking things out), color (lighten your hair or a paint color), or mood (lighten the mood, or telling someone to 'lighten up' - relax and stop being so serious).
減輕（重量）；使變淺、變亮（顏色）；使（心情）變輕鬆
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
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lightenverb詞源 1/ˈlaɪ.tn̩/
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To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets
- A Key of fire ran all along the shore, And lighten’d all the river with the blaze:
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To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
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archaicTo flash lightning, to give off lightning.
- Enter the Conjurer; it lightens and thunders […]
- […] this dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion.
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To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- […] behold his eye, As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forth Controlling majesty:
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archaicTo illuminate with knowledge.
- O Light which mak’st the Light, which makes the Day, Which setst the Eye without and Mind within, Lighten my spirit with one cleare heavenly ray, Which now to view it selfe doth first begin.
lightenverb詞源 2/ˈlaɪ.tn̩/
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To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- Sorrow can be lightened by being openly brought out.
- Many hands lighten the workload.
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To make light or lighter in weight.
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To make less serious or more cheerful.
- They looked unto him, were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
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To become light or lighter in weight.
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To become less serious or more cheerful.
lightenverb詞源 3/ˈlaɪ.tn̩/
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To descend; to light.
- Book of Common Prayer O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.
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。