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

• 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。
• Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged.
  她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。
• 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。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
• 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。
• 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。
• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.& Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer
  笨人对聪明人的嫉妒常因他们不会善终的猜测而得以减弱。英国作家毕尔博姆爵士
• He had lost his wife, and the Master assuaged his grief.
  他失去了妻子，师父减轻了他的悲痛。
• 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。
• 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。