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

• 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。
• 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。
• Amid growing nervousness in financial markets over whether countries including Spain and Portugal can repair their public finances, Madrid yesterday launched a PR offensive to try to assuage investors 'fears.
  在金融市场日益紧张、担心西班牙和葡萄牙等国无力修复公共财务之际，马德里方面昨日发起了一场公共攻势，试图平息投资者的忧虑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。