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 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。
• Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
  辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。
• By having your athletes simplify the sport and recognize that all they need to do to have a good race is swim, it helps to build their confidence and assuage their fears.
  让你的运动员把运动简单化，并让他们意识到，要想游的好他们要做的就是游，这可以帮助树立他们的自信心并缓和他们的恐惧心理。
• 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。
• One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.
  其一，就像纵欲一般，是为了减轻罪恶。
• Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
  这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。
• 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。
• 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。
• China has recently sought to assuage concerns by touting its efforts to be more transparent.
  近来，中国竭力宣传自己在增强透明度方面所做的努力，努力平息外界的担忧。
• 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。