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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His criticism is a blow for Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft, who hoped her final offer of 60 per cent cash would assuage Mr Buffett's fears that she was giving Cadbury investors too much stock.
  巴菲特的批评是对卡夫首席执行官艾琳罗森菲尔德（IreneRosenfeld）的打击。罗森菲尔德曾希望，60%现金的最终报价将化解巴菲特的忧虑，即她向吉百利投资者提供了太多的卡夫股票。
• Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
  这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。
• 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。
• 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。
• Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.
  你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦。
• 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。