assuage

GRE

英[əˈsweɪdʒ]
美[əˈsweɪdʒ]

基本释义

vt.
减轻; 缓和; 平息; 使安静

词性变化

实用例句

The medicine is used to assuage pain.

这种药用来止痛.

《简明英汉词典》

Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.

和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

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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。

柯林斯例句

" I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.

“ 我来到这个世上只是为了满足我父母的生育虚荣心. ” 她忿忿地说.

时文部分

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.

辞典例句

Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.

你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦.

辞典例句

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.

电影对白

This poisonous combination could fuel instability rather than assuage it.

这种有害的结合可能会助长不稳定而不是缓解.

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Little Sheep has taken pains to assuage food - safety concerns.

小肥羊尽力减轻顾客对食品安全的担心.

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The retreat did little to assuage fears about high energy prices, however.

此次回调只是稍稍缓和了高能源价格所带来的压力.

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One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.

其一, 就像纵欲一般, 是为了减轻罪恶.

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This is unlikely to assuage critics.

但是这却不大可能平息指责.

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He has done enough – and barely enough, at that – to assuage public anger.

他付出了足够(其实是刚刚足够)的努力, 来平息公众的愤怒.

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Drug companies are hunting for molecules to assuage brain - related ills, from paralysis to shyness ( see article ).

药物公司在搜寻用以减轻大脑相关疾病的分子, 治愈瘫痪和羞怯 ( 看文章 ).

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We project responsibility for the attack outside ourselves in order to assuage our guilt.

为了减轻我们的罪恶感,我们把攻击投射到了外界.

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真题例句

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

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Verb
  • 1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;

    "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

  • 2. satisfy (thirst);

    "The cold water quenched his thirst"

  • 3. provide physical relief, as from pain;

    "This pill will relieve your headaches"

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