Lighten

(verb.) become lighter; 'The room lightened up'.

(verb.) become more cheerful; 'after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit'.

(verb.) reduce the weight on; make lighter; 'she lightened the load on the tired donkey'.

(verb.) make more cheerful; 'the conversation lightened me up a bit'.

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• The problem is to separate the mass of dough or, in other words, to cause it to rise and lighten. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• To lighten the camera burden, and to simplify the various photographic processes, were the problems that confronted the American inventor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Many men had tried to lighten the farmer’s labor in cutting grain, and Cyrus McCormick’s father had long had the ambition to invent a reaper. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They seemed to lighten in the dark (for she kept the curtains closed) as she moved about the room on velvet paws like a cat. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I said it would lighten the load of his life--I hope it will! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• How she used to blush and lighten up when those letters came! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He turned here, to look about him, and his eye lightened as he did so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her eyes not only rained but lightened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her pale blue eyes lightened up as she took them, and her father spoke for her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The women, like his own wife, who had sewed by day and night, were saved their strength and vision, and the slavery of the clothing factories, notorious in those days, was inestimably lightened. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But the Tug, suddenly lightened, and untrammelled by having any weight in tow, was already puffing away into the distance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• With a strong taste for mechanics it was natural that he should wonder if there were not some way of lightening the burden of so much needlework. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I suppose,' he said, taking one up to eye it closely, 'you haven't been lightening any of these; but it's a trade of your people's, you know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Again she felt the lightening of her load, and with it the release of repressed activities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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