assuages
英 [əˈsweɪdʒɪz]
美 [əˈsweɪdʒɪz]
v. 缓和，减轻(不快)
assuage的第三人称单数
柯林斯词典
- VERB 缓和，减轻（不快）
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.- 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。 - 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。
- To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
- VERB 满足（需要、欲望）
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.- The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
- The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
双语例句
- It assuages the sense of moral panic that has been the handmaiden of prohibition for a century.
它减轻了禁令实行一个世纪来一直伴随着的道德恐慌感。