assuage

英 [ə'sweɪdʒ] 美 [ə'swedʒ]
  • vt. 平息;缓和;减轻
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assuage 缓和

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

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.
1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.
这种药用来止痛.

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

4. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

5. " 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.

来自时文部分