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
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.- 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。 - 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。
- To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
- VERB 满足（需要、欲望）
If youassuagea need or desire for something, you satisfy it.- The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
- The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
英英释义
verb
- provide physical relief, as from pain
- This pill will relieve your headaches
- satisfy (thirst)
- The cold water quenched his thirst
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
双语例句
- 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。 - Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。 - Does that assuage your guilt?
这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感？ - 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。 - 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。 - The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。