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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
  这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。
• 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。
• 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。
• And as the vice president, I decided to assuage his doubts.
  副总统先生，我决定满足你的疑惑。
• 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。