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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Merely to get thirst assuaged is nothing like so great a matter as to be delivered from a thousand Philistines!
  能解渴与从一千个非利士人手中被解救出来相比，实在微不足道。
• Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged.
  她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。