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
- 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。 - Does that assuage your guilt?
这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感？ - But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.
其一，就像纵欲一般，是为了减轻罪恶。 - 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。