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

• 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。
• Market fears of bank insolvency, particularly, have been assuaged.
  市场对银行资不抵债的担忧，尤其得到了舒缓。
• Not even his promotion to managing director assuaged his desire for power.
  尽管已晋升为总经理，他对权力依然是欲壑难填。
• 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
• German opposition could be assuaged, he suggests, if the country felt progress was being made in tackling structural flaws that led to the erupting of the crisis.
  他提出，如果德国觉得在对付导致危机爆发的结构性缺陷方面正取得进展，那就有望化解德方的反对。
• Although my trepidation was not completely assuaged, I was excited.
  虽然我的种种担心并没有完全缓和，我还是很激动。
• When Thain convened a town hall meeting that afternoon to discuss the deal with Merrill Lynch employees, whatever misgivings he had about the sale were assuaged by the huge round of applause that greeted him.
  当天下午塞恩召开全体员工会议，与美林员工讨论这项交易。不管他对这笔交易存在多大疑虑，迎接他的热烈欢呼声都让他心里踏实了许多。
• As demand for higher productivity increases, farmers of dairy cows are increasing faced with the need to supplement energy sources that could not longer be assuaged by the feeding of more dry matter.
  随着对较高生产力的要求的增长，奶牛饲养者提高了对补充能量的来源的重视，这一情况已不能通过喂更多干饲料来缓解。
• 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。
• 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。