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 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。
• 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。
• "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 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。
• It might help assuage worries about how deep the bank's mortgage problems might be and how long it might take to settle them.
  这可能帮助缓和银行借贷问题有多深的担忧和还要花多长时候来解决银行借贷问题的担心。
• 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。
• 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。
• But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
  但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。
• 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。
• 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。