assuage

英 [əˈsweɪdʒ]

美 [əˈsweɪdʒ]

v. 缓和，减轻(不快)

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

BNC.19113 / COCA.16696

牛津词典

verb

VERB 缓和，减轻（不快）
If youassuagean unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
1. 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. 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 youassuagea need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
1. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

verb

provide physical relief, as from pain
1. This pill will relieve your headaches
Synonym:relievealleviatepalliate
satisfy (thirst)
1. The cold water quenched his thirst
Synonym:quenchslakeallay
cause to be more favorably inclined
1. She managed to mollify the angry customer
Synonym:pacifylenifyconciliateappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle

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。
Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。
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。
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。
But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。
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。
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。
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。
Taking action to assuage skittish policy makers, on the other hand, is good politics but bad economics.
另一方面，采取行动来安抚紧张的政策制定者，虽然从政治层面来看是个不错的做法，但从经济层面来看却是个烂招。
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。