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Assuage Verb 英[əˈsweɪdʒ 美[əˈswedʒ Vt.减轻;缓和;平息;使安静;N.缓和,减轻;减轻…的人 缓和,减轻(不快 Unpleasant Feeling

单词 assuage
音标
英[əˈsweɪdʒ] 美[əˈswedʒ]
解释
vt.减轻;缓和;平息;使安静;n.缓和,减轻;减轻…的人;
例句

VERB
缓和,减轻(不快)
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
例: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。
例: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 you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
例:The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
变形
third:assuages~done:assuaged~ing:assuaging~past:assuaged~

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