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简单释义：

n. 安慰；使感到安慰的人（或物）；慰藉

网络 慰问；安慰曲；起安慰作用的人或事物

变形：

复数：consolations  

完整释义：

n.

1.安慰,慰藉,安抚,抚恤
2.安慰;慰问
3.安慰物,抚恤金
4.安慰,慰籍,自慰

例句：

1. As a longtime journalist, I feel some consolation to see the connections between the reporters they were and the writers they became.
   做了很长时间记者，能看到他们曾经作为记者和后来成为作家之间的联系，我觉得很安慰。

2. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.
   如果能有解决办法的话，那就是自然的缓慢速度给我们几十年甚至是几百年去解决这个问题。

3. I don't pride myself on it, but it's a small consolation that I was able to take at least five pictures.
   我并非为此自豪，但是我能拍下至少五张照片，还是稍稍安慰了我。

4. It is paltry consolation that such a strike, taking out a city or two, would not cause the devastation of a nuclear war between superpowers.
   一个微不足道的安慰就是这样的袭击，能毁灭一两个城市，但不会引起超级大国之间的核战争的大毁灭。

5. But the bank found consolation in Thailand's growing sales to its neighbours and to "new" markets farther afield.
   但是该银行从泰国对邻国以及更加遥远的“新”市场日益增长的销售额中找到了安慰。

6. I thought that after coming second in so many of his subjects, Charlie ought to have been given a consolation prize at least.
   我认为查理的成绩在这么多课程中均名列第二，他至少应该得到一个安慰奖。

7. It was no consolation to Miss Elizabeth that she was losing weight.
   体重正在减轻对伊丽莎白小姐而言并非是一种安慰。

8. Lisa: Actually, I don't know anything about him. I'd like to think he's highly skilled. That would at least be some consolation.
   莉莎：事实上，我对他一无所知。但我希望他的工作能力很强。这样至少会安慰一点。