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

• Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.
  你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦。
• 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。
• He tried to calm the woman but could not assuage her terror.
  他努力想使这女人安静下来，但无法减轻她的恐惧。
• They may even seek to assuage concerns by taking on even more foreign currency debt.
  他们甚至可能通过举借更多外币债务，试图平息担忧。
• 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 meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• China executed two men yesterday in an apparent attempt to assuage public anger at the tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and damaged the country's reputation.
  中国昨日处决了两名人犯，试图平息毒奶粉丑闻引发的公愤。毒奶粉事件导致至少6名儿童死亡，并损害了中国的声誉。
• The calf would give them access to forces that could assuage their fears.
  金牛犊则能将他们引向某种力量，可平息他们的恐惧。
• 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。
• 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。