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assuage
[əˈsweɪdʒ] [əˈsweɪdʒ]

  • vt. 平息,缓和,减轻(痛苦、悲伤、恐惧等不快情绪);满足(食欲、饥渴、欲望、需要等);安抚,平息(生气、焦虑或不安的人或群体)

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

英英释义

assuage [ ə'sweidʒ ]

以上来源于: WordNet

 柯林斯英汉双解大词典 

assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ/ ( assuaging, assuaged, assuages )

  • 1. 

    V-T If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 缓解; 减轻 [文学性]

    例:

    To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.

    为了缓解妻子的悲伤,他带她去欧洲旅游了一趟。

  • 2. 

    V-T If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. 使满足 [文学性]

    例:

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

    他们想方设法获得的肉食使他们得以充饥。

同近义词同根词

词根: assuage

n.

assuagement 缓和;镇静

双语例句权威例句

  • Rather than offering a voucher when something goes awry, she suggests that businesses should hand over the real deal to assuage upset customers.

    建议出了岔子时,企业应该拿出实物平息顾客的烦躁情绪,不是提供什么代金券

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  • To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.

    为了缓解妻子悲伤去欧洲旅游了一趟。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

  • The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.

    蓬勃发展经济似乎并没有怎么缓解一代人尤其是那些背负大学债务的人的潜在焦虑

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