英 [əˈsweɪdʒ] 美 [əˈsweɪdʒ]
vt. 平息；缓和；减轻
第三人称单数assuages
现在分词assuaging
过去式assuaged
过去分词assuaged
assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ/ [ assuaging assuaged assuages ]
及物动词 If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 缓解; 减轻
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。
及物动词 If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. 使满足
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。
... aspersion n. 洒(尤指洒圣水)，诽谤， 中伤 assuage vt. 缓和， 减轻， 镇定 assumption n. 假定，设想，担任(职责等)，假装 ...
... assorted adj. 各式各样的，多样混合的 assuage v. 缓和，减轻（痛苦等） assume vt. 假定，设想，（想当然地）认为；承担（责任）；采用（....的形式或姿势） ...
... assimilate v.同化；吸收；消化 assuage v.缓和，减轻；平息 astute a.机敏的，精明的；狡猾的 ...
... unorthodox 非正统的，异端的 assuage 缓和，宽慰，满足（食欲） amicable 亲切的，和蔼的 ...
assuagement 缓和；镇静
Rather than offering a voucher when something goes awry, she suggests that businesses should hand over the real deal to assuage upset customers.
她建议，当出了岔子时，企业应该拿出实物来平息顾客的烦躁情绪，而不是提供什么代金券。
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。
The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.
蓬勃发展的经济似乎并没有怎么缓解这一代人，尤其是那些背负大学债务的人的潜在焦虑感。
Relying on foreign resources may also assuage government concerns about having enough food, he said.
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So, once again, the perpetrators of the crime are trying to assuage the victims.
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Still, Iraqi officials said the U.S. actions have done little to assuage Mr. Maliki's fears.