中英互译
assuage
英 /əˈsweɪdʒ/美 /əˈsweɪdʒ/
基本释义
- 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
GRESAT
双语例句
- 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。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- 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。
网络短语
- mollify assuage placate pacify四大安慰
- assuage inflame激怒；缓和
- assuage popular indignation平民愤
- assuage pain解痛；止痛
- to assuage减轻
词语扩展
n.
assuagement缓和；镇静
词义分布
减轻
42.9%
缓和
30.6%
平息
26.5%
英英释义
- v.cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- v.satisfy (thirst)
- v.provide physical relief, as from pain
词源
- assuage缓和、减轻发音释义：[ə'sweɪdʒ] vt.平息；缓和；减轻 结构分析：assuage = as（=ad，使）+suage（温和）→使温和→缓和、减轻 词源解释：suage←通俗拉丁语suavis（温和、愉悦） 同源词：suave（温和的）；sweet（甜蜜的）；suavity（柔和）
- assuage缓和前缀as- 同ad-. 词根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.