assuaged

英 [əˈsweɪdʒd]

美 [əˈsweɪdʒd]

v.  缓和，减轻(不快)
assuage的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• Physical nature can be assuaged through exercise and care, emotional nature through indulgence of instinct and urges, and mental through human reason and developed potential.
  物理性质可以通过行使安抚和照顾，情感自然放纵的本能，并敦促，并通过人类理性精神和发展潜力。
• Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged.
  她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。
• German opposition could be assuaged, he suggests, if the country felt progress was being made in tackling structural flaws that led to the erupting of the crisis.
  他提出，如果德国觉得在对付导致危机爆发的结构性缺陷方面正取得进展，那就有望化解德方的反对。
• He had lost his wife, and the Master assuaged his grief.
  他失去了妻子，师父减轻了他的悲痛。
• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.& Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer
  笨人对聪明人的嫉妒常因他们不会善终的猜测而得以减弱。英国作家毕尔博姆爵士
• Not even his promotion to managing director assuaged his desire for power.
  尽管已晋升为总经理，他对权力依然是欲壑难填。
• When Thain convened a town hall meeting that afternoon to discuss the deal with Merrill Lynch employees, whatever misgivings he had about the sale were assuaged by the huge round of applause that greeted him.
  当天下午塞恩召开全体员工会议，与美林员工讨论这项交易。不管他对这笔交易存在多大疑虑，迎接他的热烈欢呼声都让他心里踏实了许多。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• Although my trepidation was not completely assuaged, I was excited.
  虽然我的种种担心并没有完全缓和，我还是很激动。
• S.jobs, which is fueling rhetoric in presidential and congressional campaigns, is unlikely to be assuaged by a modest acceleration of the yuan's appreciation against the dollar.
  人民币兑美元汇率升值速度的温和加快不大可能缓解美国人对中国与之争夺就业机会的忧虑，这种担忧正日益成为美国总统和国会选举中的热门话题。