- 1減輕情節的；情有可原的（法律上常說「減輕事由」）
Mitigating, in this use, points to facts that make a crime or a bad mistake seem less serious, even though it still happened. Lawyers say mitigating circumstances or mitigating factors: perhaps the person was very young, was under huge pressure, or has a clean past. A judge may still say they did wrong, but those facts can mean a lighter punishment. People stretch it outside court too: a student might call a family emergency a mitigating factor for late work. It is a fairly formal word, most at home in law, school reports, and careful apologies. It does not mean “not guilty.” The opposite idea is aggravating — facts that make the thing look worse.
From the word’s history
From mitigate, from Latin mītigō 'to make soft, tame', from mītis 'gentle, mild'.
mitigate 加 -ing；源自拉丁文 mītigō「使溫和、減輕」。
組成The -ing form of mitigate, used as an adjective: “making less serious,” especially before circumstances, factors, or evidence.
同家族的字
- mitigatethe verb this adjective comes from: to make something less bad
- mitigationthe noun for that softening, including in legal talk
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
mitigatingadj
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That serves to mitigate.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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