remission

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1 [countableC, uncountableU]MI a period when a serious illness improves for a time 〔重病的〕减轻，缓解（期）

in remission

The chemotherapy was successful, and she is now in remission.

化疗很成功，现在她的症状有所缓解。

The cancer has gone into remission.

癌症已经开始好转。

2 [countableC, uncountableU] British EnglishBrESCJ a reduction of the time that someone has to spend in prison 减刑

He was given six months’ remission for good behaviour.

他因为表现良好获六个月减刑。

3 [uncountableU] formalBFL when you allow someone to keep the money they owe you 〔债务的〕免除

remission of debts

免除债务

4. the remission of sins formalRR forgiveness from God for the bad things that you have done 〔上帝〕赦罪

Examples from the Corpus

remission• In three of them, this diet was as effective as an elemental diet in achieving remission.• Exacerbations and remissions of the pain are the general rule.• Such protesters were refused alternative clothing and lost any remission of their sentence.• She's now been in remission for two and a half years.• All these parameters were normal in patients with Crohn's disease in remission and in controls.• The inflammatory cells were absent in the colonic mucosa of Crohn's disease patients examined in remission.• The subsequent relapse rate after elemental diet induced remission, however, is greater than after treatment with prednisolone.• There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities.

From Longman Business Dictionary