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

• 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。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.
  我不能否认，不管他的忧伤是为了什么，我都为他的忧伤感到忧伤，并愿意不惜一切来减轻它。
• China executed two men yesterday in an apparent attempt to assuage public anger at the tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and damaged the country's reputation.
  中国昨日处决了两名人犯，试图平息毒奶粉丑闻引发的公愤。毒奶粉事件导致至少6名儿童死亡，并损害了中国的声誉。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。