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
- Does that assuage your guilt?
这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感? - But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。