assuage
英[ə'sweɪdʒ] 美[ə'sweɪdʒ]
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
"The cold water quenched his thirst"
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
1.缓和，减轻（不快）
If youassuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
e.g. Toassuage 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。
e.g. She was just trying toassuage 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。
2.满足（需要、欲望）
If youassuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
e.g. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
1. 缓和,宽慰,满足(食欲)：Unorthodox 非正统的,异端的 |assuage 缓和,宽慰,满足(食欲) | Amicable 亲切的,和蔼的
2. assuage的近义词
2. 缓和, 减轻, 镇定：ASST || American Society for Steel Treating 美国钢处理协会 |assuage || 缓和, 减轻, 镇定 |assuagement || 缓和, 缓和物
3. 缓和,减轻：ASSORTED 混杂的 |assuage 缓和,减轻 | ASSUME 假定
The medicine is used to assuage pain.
这种药用来止痛.
Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.
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。
' I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.
“ 我来到这个世上只是为了满足我父母的生育虚荣心. ” 她忿忿地说.
Charlotte would assuage him with some peculiar triumph of her culinary art.
夏洛特会用烹饪术的某种独特的“成就”使他平息下去.
Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.
你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦.
And as the Vice President, I decided to assuage his doubts.
副总统先生, 我决定满足你的疑惑.
This poisonous combination could fuel instability rather than assuage it.
这种有害的结合可能会助长不稳定而不是缓解.
Little Sheep has taken pains to assuage food - safety concerns.
小肥羊尽力减轻顾客对食品安全的担心.
The retreat did little to assuage fears about high energy prices, however.
此次回调只是稍稍缓和了高能源价格所带来的压力.
One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.
其一, 就像纵欲一般, 是为了减轻罪恶.
This is unlikely to assuage critics.
但是这却不大可能平息指责.
He has done enough 'u2013 and barely enough, at that 'u2013 to assuage public anger.
他付出了足够(其实是刚刚足够)的努力, 来平息公众的愤怒.
Drug companies are hunting for molecules to assuage brain - related ills, from paralysis to shyness ( see article ).
药物公司在搜寻用以减轻大脑相关疾病的分子, 治愈瘫痪和羞怯 ( 看文章 ).
We project responsibility for the attack outside ourselves in order to assuage our guilt.
为了减轻我们的罪恶感,我们把攻击投射到了外界.
They need medicine..to assuage the disease.
出自：BaconHe had once gone three days without water..in order to experience the exquisite delight of such a thirst assuaged.
出自：J. LondonAssuaging her fears by day and her lusts by night.
出自：N. Algren