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
- One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.
其一，就像纵欲一般，是为了减轻罪恶。 - The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。 - 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。 - But at the local level the light touch applied by Chinese managers seems to have helped assuage such concerns.
但在当地，中国管理者采取的无为而治的策略，似乎缓解了这样的担忧。 - 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。 - 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。 - Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。 - 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。 - "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。 - 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。