Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.

作家组织固然可以排遣们孤独，但是我怀疑它们未必能够促进作家创作。

Cora remained silent, for she knew not how to palliate this imprudent severity on the part of her father in a manner to suit the comprehension of an Indian.

科拉保持沉默，因她不知道如何以一种适合印第安人理解方式来缓和她父亲这种鲁莽严厉。

The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to excuse or palliate.

年轻牧师， 经过几个小时私密生活，意识神经紊乱促使大发脾气，医生话无法原谅或缓解。