assuage

美 [əˈsweɪdʒ]英 [əˈsweɪdʒ]
  • vt.减轻(不快);缓和

过去式: assuaged 现在分词: assuaging 过去分词: assuaged 第三人称单数: assuages

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verb

VN缓和,减轻(不快)
to make an unpleasant feeling less severe

assuage

频次

  • 1
    VERB 缓和,减轻(不快)
    If you assuage an 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。

  • 2
    VERB 满足(需要、欲望)
    If you assuage a 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。

verb

1
provide physical relief, as from pain
This pill will relieve your headaches
Synonym: relieve alleviate palliate
2
satisfy (thirst)
The cold water quenched his thirst
Synonym: quench slake allay
3
cause to be more favorably inclined;gain the good will of
She managed to mollify the angry customer
Synonym: pacify lenify conciliate appease mollify placate gentle gruntle

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  1. 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。

  2. " I satisfy myself " was his private law , but so to do he must assuage and control the prejudices of other men .

    “我行我素”是他个人的信条,但是要这样办,他就必须要缓和和控制别人的成见。

  3. 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。

  4. 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。

  5. The meat they 'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger .

    他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

  6. Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger .

    这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。

  7. The medicine is used to assuage pain .

    这种药用来止痛。

  8. In assuaging these worries , governments will have to balance two risks .

    为了安抚这些忧虑,政府必须平衡两个风险

  9. The structure , aimed at assuaging concerns about Indonesian law , is commonly deployed .

    该结构旨在规避印尼法律,目前得到广泛使用

  10. Rejection ( which cannot be assuaged ) is another powerful motivator of bullying . (

    不能缓和的)拒绝是另一个欺负行为的有力动因

  11. But they have a long way to go before public opinion is assuaged .

    但是他们还有很长的路要走民意消除。

  12. It still is , and I know of no pain that art cannot assuage .

    到现在仍是如此,而且我所知道的痛苦,无一不透过艺术而得到舒缓。

  13. 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。

  14. 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。

  15. Not even his promotion to managing director assuaged his desire for power .

    尽管已晋升为总经理,他对权力依然是欲壑难填。

  16. Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged .

    她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。

  17. At the same time , officials tried to use weibo to assuage public anger .

    与此同时,北京市官员也试图通过微博来平息众怒。

  18. Such a scenario might assuage an angry public .

    辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。

  19. Market fears of bank insolvency , particularly , have been assuaged .

    市场对银行资不抵债的担忧,尤其得到了舒缓。

  20. 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。

  21. Chinese companies have also displayed greater sophistication in assuaging foreign concerns about the buyouts .

    在消除国外对收购的担忧方面,中国企业也表现得更为精明老到。

  22. 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。

  23. How to adjust and control consumption so as to assuage economic fluctuation is getting more and more pressed .

    如何通过对消费的调控来缓和经济波动,成为一个越来越紧迫的课题。

  24. He had lost his wife , and the Master assuaged his grief .

    他失去了妻子,师父减轻了他的悲痛。

  25. 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。

  26. Raising insurance levels is one way policy makers could try to assuage the public about the solvency of their financial institutions .

    上调保险限额是决策者可以尝试的一种安抚公众对金融机构破产恐慌的办法。

  27. 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。

  28. Are we just tools being used to assuage their discontent and indignation ?

    我们是否当权者用来安抚群众的棋子?

  29. To develop timber plantation intensively is an important measurements to assuage the wood deficiency in the world .

    大力发展人工用材林是世界各国历来采取的缓解木材不足的重要措施。

  30. 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。