assuage

• vt. 平息；缓和；减轻

前缀as- 同ad-. 词根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.

1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;

"She managed to mollify the angry customer"

2. satisfy (thirst);

"The cold water quenched his thirst"

3. provide physical relief, as from pain;

"This pill will relieve your headaches"

assuage

assuage: see persuade

assuage (v.)

c. 1300, from Anglo-French assuager, Old French assoagier "soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify," from Vulgar Latin *adsuaviare, from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + suavis "sweet, agreeable" (see sweet (adj.)). For sound development in French, compare deluge from Latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. Related: Assuaged; assuaging.

The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.

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The medicine is used to assuage pain.

这种药用来止痛.

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Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.

和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

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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。

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" 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.

其一, 就像纵欲一般, 是为了减轻罪恶.

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This is unlikely to assuage critics.

但是这却不大可能平息指责.

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He has done enough – and barely enough, at that – 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.

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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 ).

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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.

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