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consolation

/kon-suh-ley-shuhn/US // ˌkɒn səˈleɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌkɒnsəˈleɪʃən) //

慰藉,安慰,慰问金,慰问

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of consoling; comfort; solace.
    • : the state of being consoled.
    • : someone or something that consoles: His faith was a consolation during his troubles. Her daughters are a consolation to her.
    • : Sports. a game, match, or race for tournament entrants eliminated before the final round, as a basketball game between the losing semifinalists.

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Examples

  • At $50 a pop, the virtual New York and Boston race registration fees are at best a small financial consolation prize for the two organizers, which normally rake in tens of millions of dollars from their marquee marathons.

  • Many of the women found consolation in believing that their marital home, or “sasural” was written in their fate.

  • While Microsoft may have lost out on TikTok, it’s certainly not skimping on the consolation prize.

  • It is difficult to face this moment in our forced separation without even the consolation of being able to embrace or to wipe each other’s tears.

  • Some of those teams were undoubtedly expecting to still be playing, but they all likely would have been happy with the highly touted winger as consolation.

  • Yet according to Hamilton, “it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.”

  • Dee Dee candles, rosaries, shirts and prints are offered for sale near the gallery's door as a kind of consolation.

  • There was little consolation to be had from this revelation except a bizarre sense of personal privilege.

  • But the civilians, even those who are proud of the largely symbolic resistance, can take little consolation for the future.

  • But that probably comes as little consolation to the 99 percent.

  • The poor must look to the brightness of a future world for the consolation that they were denied in this.

  • And it is small consolation to me to note that most people's minds seem to be no better done than mine.

  • Augustus Theodore swings on a chair before the fire, which he keeps at work for his own especial consolation.

  • She found no consolation in the fact that she had been encouraged to do as she had done by those who claimed to love her.

  • From there on Piegan set a pace that taxed our horses' mettle—that was one consolation—we were well mounted.