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

• Market fears of bank insolvency, particularly, have been assuaged.
  市场对银行资不抵债的担忧，尤其得到了舒缓。
• That could either be because its wartime behaviour was intrinsically more heinous than any other nation, or because its neighbours still do not feel properly assuaged.
  这或许是因为其战时行为在性质上比其他任何国家都更令人发指，或是因为其邻国仍觉得自己的伤痛没有得到妥善抚平。
• On that day, however, the unripe jujubes had been green and bitter, and made your stomach bloated. At least they assuaged your hunger.
  那时节的河畔枣又青又涩，吃得你肚子发胀，可是你一点儿也不饿了。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• Merely to get thirst assuaged is nothing like so great a matter as to be delivered from a thousand Philistines!
  能解渴与从一千个非利士人手中被解救出来相比，实在微不足道。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• Oh, I had a few scruples. I assuaged my conscience with empty words.
  哦，我有过一点顾虑，但我用空洞的话语安慰我的良知。
• Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged.
  她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。