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
- They may even seek to assuage concerns by taking on even more foreign currency debt.
他们甚至可能通过举借更多外币债务,试图平息担忧。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Taking action to assuage skittish policy makers, on the other hand, is good politics but bad economics.
另一方面,采取行动来安抚紧张的政策制定者,虽然从政治层面来看是个不错的做法,但从经济层面来看却是个烂招。 - He tried to calm the woman but could not assuage her terror.
他努力想使这女人安静下来,但无法减轻她的恐惧。 - 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 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。