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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

      双语例句

      • 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。
      • "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。
      • 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。
      • By having your athletes simplify the sport and recognize that all they need to do to have a good race is swim, it helps to build their confidence and assuage their fears.
        让你的运动员把运动简单化,并让他们意识到,要想游的好他们要做的就是游,这可以帮助树立他们的自信心并缓和他们的恐惧心理。
      • But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
        但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • Charlotte would assuage him with some peculiar triumph of her culinary art.
        夏洛特会用烹饪术的某种独特的成就使他平息下去。
      • 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。