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
- 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。