流逝汉英词典

assuage

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [əˈsweɪdʒ]
  • 美式音标 [əˈsweɪdʒ]
  • 国际音标 [ə'sweidʒ]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vt.减轻
  • n.缓和，减轻

词根记忆

  • as + suage(甜)→变甜→缓和
  • ass(驴子) + u + age(年龄)→驴子上了年纪，应该减轻负担→减轻

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    assuagement：缓和；镇静。

英汉例句

  • The medicine is used to assuage pain.
    这种药用来止痛.
  • Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
    和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.
  • 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。
  • The medicine is used to assuage pain.
    这种药用来止痛.
  • Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
    和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

词组短语

    短语

  • pacify assuage 使平静
  • assuage inflame 激怒;缓和
  • to assuage 减轻
  • assuage pain 止痛;解痛
  • assuage hunger 减缓饥饿

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • to make unpleasant feelings less strong

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
  • If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.