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
- But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。 - 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。 - Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。 - 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。 - His criticism is a blow for Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft, who hoped her final offer of 60 per cent cash would assuage Mr Buffett's fears that she was giving Cadbury investors too much stock.
巴菲特的批评是对卡夫首席执行官艾琳罗森菲尔德（IreneRosenfeld）的打击。罗森菲尔德曾希望，60%现金的最终报价将化解巴菲特的忧虑，即她向吉百利投资者提供了太多的卡夫股票。 - 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。 - Does that assuage your guilt?
这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感？ - It will do little to assuage Japanese concerns that Chinese imbibe hatred of Japan from a young age.
这并不会使日本在中国因为年轻人而仇日的问题上放心。 - 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。