consolation 的定义
- 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.
consolation 近义词
relief, comfort
更多consolation例句
- 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.