They are known as "second generation" drugs, designed to alleviate side effects of older "first generation" medicines that often caused muscle spasms and stiffness.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

The drug L-DOPA increases the supply of dopamine and so there is something to alleviate, at least temporarily, the symptoms of Parkinson's.

左旋多巴这种药可以增加多巴胺的分泌量,所以这种药物,至少可以暂时性地缓解,帕金森症的症状

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So this is the first thing to alleviate the concern of elitism.

因此在这问题上无须计较研究对象是不是精英。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

this is the right time to do it, to try to see if it will help,help alleviate some of the violence we are seeing along our border."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Najafi was asked by a reporter about reports U.S.special envoy Richard Holbrooke is trying to pressure the Afghan government into holding a second round to alleviate concerns of widespread voter fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29