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Relief C French Left 1823.Relief 英 Rɪ'Liːf]美 Rɪ'Lif

正面 1823.relief
英 [rɪ'liːf]美 [rɪ'lif]

背面
释义:
n. 救济;减轻,解除;安慰;浮雕
例句:
1. The news will come as a great relief to the French authorities.这个消息会让法国当局大大松一口气。

1、just- => just.
relief 缓和,减轻,浮雕来自 relieve 的名词形式。比较 proof,prove.
relief (n.1)late 14c., "alleviation of distress, hunger, sickness, etc; state of being relieved; that which mitigates or removes" (pain, grief, evil, etc.)," from Anglo-French relif, from Old French relief "assistance," literally "a raising, that which is lifted," from stressed stem of relever (see relieve). Meaning "aid to impoverished persons" is attested from c. 1400; that of "deliverance of a besieged town" is from c. 1400. Earlier in English as "that which is left over or left behind," also "feudal payment to an overlord made by an heir upon taking possession of an estate" (both c. 1200).relief (n.2)"projection of figure or design from a flat surface," c. 1600, from French relief, from Italian rilievo, from rilevare "to raise," from Latin relevare "to raise, lighten" (see relieve)."

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