ADJECTIVE | VERB + CONSOLATION | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤great莫大的安慰▸➤small小小的安慰VERB + CONSOLATION➤have有欣慰之事◇She had the consolation of coming second in her last race of the day.使她感到慰藉的是,她在那天參加的最後一項賽跑比賽中獲得了第二名。➤seek尋求安慰◇She tends to seek consolation in food.她常在食物中尋求安慰。➤draw, find, take獲取安慰;找到安慰◇He drew little consolation from this fact.這個事實沒有給他帶來什麼安慰。◇When her mother died, she found consolation in her religious beliefs.她母親去世後,她在宗教信仰中找到了安慰。◇Although we lost the game, we took some consolation from the fact that we played well.儘管輸了比賽,但我們表現還不錯,這讓我們得到一些安慰。➤bring (sb), offer (sb), provide (sb with)給予(某人)安慰;(給某人)帶來安慰◇The next game will probably offer them the consolation of winning.下一場比賽很可能會給他們帶來獲勝的安慰。PREPOSITION➤consolation for對⋯的安慰▸➤consolation to對⋯的安慰◇The children were a great consolation to me at that time.那時孩子們成了我莫大的安慰。PHRASES➤be (of) little consolation to sb, be (of) small consolation to sb, be (of) some consolation to sb對某人沒有什麼/有一點兒/有一些安慰作用◇This news was of little consolation to us.這個消息對我們來說沒有什麼安慰作用。➤if it is any consolation (to sb)如果這(對某人)有任何安慰作用的話◇If it's any consolation to you, the weather here is also awful.這裏的天氣也很糟,不知這是不是對你來說算點兒安慰。➤sb's one consolation, sb's only consolation某人的一個/某人的唯一安慰◇When she lost her job, her only consolation was that she had some savings in the bank.她失去工作後,唯一的安慰就是銀行裏還有些積蓄。