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

• 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。
• Undisturbed, the walls of the apartment contained the serene face of the film star, the assuaged time of the dunes.
  公寓的墙壁逍遥自在，未受干扰。它们储有影星安详沉静的脸和沙丘那平息的时光。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。