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.減輕
  • n.緩和，減輕

词根记忆

  • as + suage(甜)→變甜→緩和
  • ass(驢子) + u + age(年齡)→驢子上了年紀，應該減輕負擔→減輕

同根派生

  • n性質的同根詞
    assuagement：緩和；鎮靜。

英汉例句

  • The medicine is used to assuage pain.
    這種葯用來止痛.
  • Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
    和她交談減輕了我的負罪感.
  • She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
    她裝出一副慈母的樣子衹是想要減輕自己的罪惡感。
  • The medicine is used to assuage pain.
    這種葯用來止痛.
  • Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
    和她交談減輕了我的負罪感.

词组短语

    短語

  • pacify assuage 使平靜
  • assuage inflame 激怒;緩和
  • to assuage 減輕
  • assuage pain 止痛;解痛
  • assuage hunger 減緩飢餓

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • 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.