palliative

palliative

英 ['pælɪətɪv]
　　美 ['pælɪ'etɪv]

n. 辯解；緩和劑；暫時姑息的手段
　　adj. 緩和的；掩飾的；可斟酌的

中文詞源：

palliative 緩沖，權宜之計

來自palliate,減輕，緩和，-ive,形容詞後綴。引申詞義權宜之計。

例句：

1. The increase in the number of rooms available in private homes acted as a palliative to the general accommodation shortage.
私宅中可用房間數的增加緩解瞭客房總體不足的問題。

2. The loan was a palliative, not a cure, for ever-increasing financial troubles.
對於越來越多的財政問題，貸款隻是權宜之計，不是解決方法。

3. More frequently some form of local palliative operation is done.
進行一定方式的局部姑息手術則更為多見.

4. Treatment of electrical burns is palliative.
電燒傷的治療隻起治標作用.

5. This is only a palliative.
這僅僅是一種掩飾.