雅思写作高分万能词汇之relieve
relieve的基本意思为“缓解;减轻;使解脱”，相当于lessen，通常用于词组“relieve ... of...”（把某人从……中解脱出来）。比如：
Drugs can relieve much of the pain. 药物可以大大缓解疼痛。
A housekeeper can relieve you of the house chores. 管家可使你从家务中解脱出来。
I felt much relieved when I heard the good news. 听说这个好消息，我感觉轻松了很多。
以下看relieve在雅思范文中的使用情况。
Meanwhile， cities and towns built centuries ago do not have enough entertainment and sports facilities available to contemporary city dwellers who， relieved of the manual labor by the technological advances， suddenly find they have a great amount of free time.
同时，由于技术的发展，当代城市居民已经从手工劳作中解脱出来，他们突然发现自己有大量空闲时间，但是数世纪前修建的城镇却没有足够的娱乐和体育设施供他们使用。（2016/11/3，
旧城镇会带来哪些问题？）
Children today are apparently enjoying more freedom than ever before. This is so because the technological advances have relieved children of much of their manual labor and because the parents and schools these days are far less controlling than in the past.
今天的孩子们显然享受着比以前更多的自由。之所以如此，是因为技术进步使孩子们从大量体力劳动中解放出来，也因为现在家长和学校远不如以前那样控制孩子了。（2017/7/8，孩子们自由更多了是好还是坏？）
relieved是什么意思Even those more leisurely activities such as guitar playing or singing can relieve the students of their heavy load of academic work and make them more resilient to physical and emotional stresses in life.
即使那些悠闲的活动，如吉他演奏或唱歌，也可以缓解他们沉重的学业负担，让他们更能应对生活中的身心压力。（2017/8/26，大学生应该从事学习之外的活动吗？）