起缓和作用的

A soothing, usually mucilaginous or oily substance, such as glycerin or lanolin, used especially to relieve pain in inflamed or irritated mucous membranes.

润滑剂，缓和剂一种起润滑作用的物质，例如甘油或羊毛脂等，通常是粘液或油状的，尤用于减轻因粘膜发炎而引起的疼痛

It's not about "a massive infection or a welt the size of an egg because you got hit in the head with a two-by-four," Tracy says. Inflammation also goes on at a much lower level.

特蕾西说：这不象那种严重的感染，也不象脑袋上被木棍砸了一个鸡蛋大小的口子等所造成的伤害，但是炎症仍然以极其缓和的力度在起作用。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。