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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
  这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。
• Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
  辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。