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

• Does that assuage your guilt?
  这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。