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

• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• 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。
• The calf would give them access to forces that could assuage their fears.
  金牛犊则能将他们引向某种力量，可平息他们的恐惧。
• One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.
  其一，就像纵欲一般，是为了减轻罪恶。
• But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
  但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。
• Public criticism has forced Mr Lee and his government to delay economic restructuring plans and to seek the voluntary agreement of the us to restrict beef shipments to assuage public fears about mad cow disease, even though the meat has been cleared by international inspectors.
  公众批评已迫使李明博及其政府推迟经济重组的计划，并且寻求美国限制发运牛肉的自愿协议，以减轻公众对疯牛病的害怕，即便相关牛肉已由国际检查员检查通过。
• Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
  辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。
• The government is attempting to assuage jittery voters with promises of a reformed nuclear industry.
  日本政府承诺将对核电行业进行改革，希望借此缓解选民的紧张情绪。
• 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。