assuage

英 [əˈsweɪdʒ]

美 [əˈsweɪdʒ]

v.  缓和，减轻(不快)

过去分词：assuaged　现在分词：assuaging　过去式：assuaged　第三人称单数：assuages　

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BNC.19113 / COCA.16696

牛津词典

verb

• 缓和，减轻（不快）
  to make an unpleasant feeling less severe

柯林斯词典

• VERB 缓和，减轻（不快）
  If youassuagean unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
  1. To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
     为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。
  2. She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
     她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。
• VERB 满足（需要、欲望）
  If youassuagea need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
  1. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
     他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

英英释义

verb

• provide physical relief, as from pain
  1. This pill will relieve your headaches
  Synonym:relievealleviatepalliate
• satisfy (thirst)
  1. The cold water quenched his thirst
  Synonym:quenchslakeallay
• cause to be more favorably inclined
  1. She managed to mollify the angry customer
  Synonym:pacifylenifyconciliateappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle

双语例句

• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• Charlotte would assuage him with some peculiar triumph of her culinary art.
  夏洛特会用烹饪术的某种独特的成就使他平息下去。
• "I satisfy myself" was his private law, but so to do he must assuage and control the prejudices of other men.
  “我行我素”是他个人的信条，但是要这样办，他就必须要缓和和控制别人的成见。
• And as the vice president, I decided to assuage his doubts.
  副总统先生，我决定满足你的疑惑。
• The government has tried to assuage the left by stressing the limits of reform.
  政府强调改革的限度，试图平息左派的怒气。
• Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
  这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。
• They hire you because you assuage their sense of guilt.
  他们请你是因为你能减轻他们罪恶的感觉。
• The government is attempting to assuage jittery voters with promises of a reformed nuclear industry.
  日本政府承诺将对核电行业进行改革，希望借此缓解选民的紧张情绪。
• It might help assuage worries about how deep the bank's mortgage problems might be and how long it might take to settle them.
  这可能帮助缓和银行借贷问题有多深的担忧和还要花多长时候来解决银行借贷问题的担心。
• I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.
  我不能否认，不管他的忧伤是为了什么，我都为他的忧伤感到忧伤，并愿意不惜一切来减轻它。