assuage

assuage音标

英 [əˈsweɪdʒ]

美 [əˈswedʒ]

assuage基本释义

v.缓和；减轻；镇定

assuage用法及例句

verb

1. provide physical relief, as from pain

e.g. This pill will relieve your headaches

Synonym: relievealleviatepalliate

2. satisfy (thirst)

e.g. The cold water quenched his thirst

Synonym: quenchslakeallay

3. cause to be more favorably inclinedgain the good will of

e.g. She managed to mollify the angry customer

Synonym: pacifylenifyconciliateappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle

1. 缓和，减轻（不快）If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.

e.g. 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。e.g. 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。

2. 满足（需要、欲望）If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.

e.g. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

1. 缓和,宽慰,满足(食欲)：Unorthodox 非正统的,异端的 | Assuage 缓和,宽慰,满足(食欲) | Amicable 亲切的,和蔼的

2. assuage的近义词

2. 缓和, 减轻, 镇定：ASST || American Society for Steel Treating 美国钢处理协会 | assuage || 缓和, 减轻, 镇定 | assuagement || 缓和, 缓和物

3. 缓和,减轻：ASSORTED 混杂的 | ASSUAGE 缓和,减轻 | ASSUME 假定

They need medicine..to assuage the disease.

出自：Bacon

He had once gone three days without water..in order to experience the exquisite delight of such a thirst assuaged.

出自：J. London

Assuaging her fears by day and her lusts by night.

出自：N. Algren

近义词

临近词

gentle温和的

ease容易

placate抚慰

moderate适度的

allay减轻

slake消除

quiet安静的

suffice足够

satisfy使满意

lenify安慰

conciliate安抚

quench熄灭

lessen减少

silence沉默

mollify安慰

temper脾气

pacify使 ... 平静

calm平静的

relieve救济

alleviate减轻

loosen松开

check检查

gruntle使高兴

sympathize同情

restrain抑制

soften(使)变柔和

palliate减轻

mitigate减轻

appease安抚

assuage sorrow

assuage popular indignation

Assuage her grief.

assuagement

assortment

Assuage their chronic insecurity.

assuager

assuage thirst

assume

Assuage pain

相关列句

Mr Daschle's innumerable entanglements with those groups might have helped to assuage their worries.(达施勒先生与那些团体无数次的来往可能有助于缓解他们的烦恼。)

Will all this assuage the cantankerous markets?(做的所有的努力有可能缓和这个敏感的是市场吗？)

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。)

Any further changes to assuage shareholder concerns are likely to be announced soon after the ruling.(任何缓和股东担忧的进一步变化都可能在裁定后不久宣布。)

In addition to giving him peace of mind that his mother is fine, the system helps assuage that midlife sense of guilt.(这个系统除了让他对自己的母亲的状况感到安心以外，它还减少了他的愧疚感。)

The explanation, however, did little to assuage public anger.(但他们的解释没法怎样平息公众的愤怒。)

And because they are human, they assuage their ensuing uncertainty with self-deceptions.(因为他们是人，他们用自我欺骗来缓解他们随之产生的不确定感。)

A balanced deal is more likely to be accepted by voters, in both creditor and debtor states, and to assuage markets.(平衡的协定更可能为债权国或债务国的选民所接受，而且可以安抚市场。)

Both Dell and Xerox say their targets will have plenty of operational freedom, to assuage such concerns.(戴尔和施乐均表示在运营层面上会有很大的自由度，可以让员工打消心中顾虑。)

Still, the scale of Chinese bond-buying is unclear; certainly, it has not been enough to assuage the panic in the markets.(虽然目前中方购买债券的规模还不清楚，但可以肯定的是，此举并不足以平息市场上的恐慌。)