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

• Does that assuage your guilt?
  这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感？
• 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。
• Amid growing nervousness in financial markets over whether countries including Spain and Portugal can repair their public finances, Madrid yesterday launched a PR offensive to try to assuage investors 'fears.
  在金融市场日益紧张、担心西班牙和葡萄牙等国无力修复公共财务之际，马德里方面昨日发起了一场公共攻势，试图平息投资者的忧虑。
• Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
  辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。
• 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。
• Public criticism has forced Mr Lee and his government to delay economic restructuring plans and to seek the voluntary agreement of the us to restrict beef shipments to assuage public fears about mad cow disease, even though the meat has been cleared by international inspectors.
  公众批评已迫使李明博及其政府推迟经济重组的计划，并且寻求美国限制发运牛肉的自愿协议，以减轻公众对疯牛病的害怕，即便相关牛肉已由国际检查员检查通过。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• Taking action to assuage skittish policy makers, on the other hand, is good politics but bad economics.
  另一方面，采取行动来安抚紧张的政策制定者，虽然从政治层面来看是个不错的做法，但从经济层面来看却是个烂招。
• 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。
• 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。