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

• 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。
• But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
  但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。
• 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。
• 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。
• Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
  辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。
• China executed two men yesterday in an apparent attempt to assuage public anger at the tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and damaged the country's reputation.
  中国昨日处决了两名人犯，试图平息毒奶粉丑闻引发的公愤。毒奶粉事件导致至少6名儿童死亡，并损害了中国的声誉。
• The European Central Bank believes greater transparency about the state of Member States 'banks could help to assuage investors' fears about the eurozone and has been exerting intense behind-the-scenes pressure.
  欧洲央行（ecb）相信，增加其成员国银行状况的透明度，可以有助于缓和投资者对于欧元区的担忧，所以，该机构一直在幕后施加着巨大压力。
• 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。
• "I satisfy myself" was his private law, but so to do he must assuage and control the prejudices of other men.
  “我行我素”是他个人的信条，但是要这样办，他就必须要缓和和控制别人的成见。
• 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。