assuaged

英 [əˈsweɪdʒd]

美 [əˈsweɪdʒd]

v.  缓和，减轻(不快)
assuage的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• 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。

双语例句

• S.jobs, which is fueling rhetoric in presidential and congressional campaigns, is unlikely to be assuaged by a modest acceleration of the yuan's appreciation against the dollar.
  人民币兑美元汇率升值速度的温和加快不大可能缓解美国人对中国与之争夺就业机会的忧虑，这种担忧正日益成为美国总统和国会选举中的热门话题。
• Oh, I had a few scruples. I assuaged my conscience with empty words.
  哦，我有过一点顾虑，但我用空洞的话语安慰我的良知。
• Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged.
  她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。
• That could either be because its wartime behaviour was intrinsically more heinous than any other nation, or because its neighbours still do not feel properly assuaged.
  这或许是因为其战时行为在性质上比其他任何国家都更令人发指，或是因为其邻国仍觉得自己的伤痛没有得到妥善抚平。
• Rejection ( which cannot be assuaged) is another powerful motivator of bullying.
  （不能缓和的）拒绝是另一个欺负行为的有力动因。
• On that day, however, the unripe jujubes had been green and bitter, and made your stomach bloated. At least they assuaged your hunger.
  那时节的河畔枣又青又涩，吃得你肚子发胀，可是你一点儿也不饿了。
• But they have a long way to go before public opinion is assuaged.
  但是他们还有很长的路要走民意消除。
• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.& Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer
  笨人对聪明人的嫉妒常因他们不会善终的猜测而得以减弱。英国作家毕尔博姆爵士
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• Physical nature can be assuaged through exercise and care, emotional nature through indulgence of instinct and urges, and mental through human reason and developed potential.
  物理性质可以通过行使安抚和照顾，情感自然放纵的本能，并敦促，并通过人类理性精神和发展潜力。