assuage

verb

1. 缓和，减轻（不快）
   to make an unpleasant feeling less severe

1. VERB 缓和，减轻（不快）
   If you assuage an 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。
2. VERB 满足（需要、欲望）
   If you assuage a 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。

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。
3. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
   他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
4. Even a good thrashing of the scoundrel will not assuage our anger.
   这坏蛋打他一顿也不解恨。
5. The government is attempting to assuage jittery voters with promises of a reformed nuclear industry.
   日本政府承诺将对核电行业进行改革，希望借此缓解选民的紧张情绪。
6. But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
   但她又会体贴的消除他们的忧虑。
7. But at the local level the light touch applied by Chinese managers seems to have helped assuage such concerns.
   但在当地，中国管理者采取的无为而治的策略，似乎缓解了这样的担忧。
8. The calf would give them access to forces that could assuage their fears.
   金牛犊则能将他们引向某种力量，可平息他们的恐惧。
9. And as the vice president, I decided to assuage his doubts.
   副总统先生，我决定满足你的疑惑。
10. It will do little to assuage Japanese concerns that Chinese imbibe hatred of Japan from a young age.
    这并不会使日本在中国因为年轻人而仇日的问题上放心。
11. His criticism is a blow for Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft, who hoped her final offer of 60 per cent cash would assuage Mr Buffett's fears that she was giving Cadbury investors too much stock.
    巴菲特的批评是对卡夫首席执行官艾琳罗森菲尔德（IreneRosenfeld）的打击。罗森菲尔德曾希望，60%现金的最终报价将化解巴菲特的忧虑，即她向吉百利投资者提供了太多的卡夫股票。
12. One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.
    其一，就像纵欲一般，是为了减轻罪恶。
13. Public criticism has forced Mr Lee and his government to delay economic restructuring plans and to seek the voluntary agreement of the us to restrict beef shipments to assuage public fears about mad cow disease, even though the meat has been cleared by international inspectors.
    公众批评已迫使李明博及其政府推迟经济重组的计划，并且寻求美国限制发运牛肉的自愿协议，以减轻公众对疯牛病的害怕，即便相关牛肉已由国际检查员检查通过。
14. The government has tried to assuage the left by stressing the limits of reform.
    政府强调改革的限度，试图平息左派的怒气。
15. Such a scenario might assuage an angry public.
    辞职可能会平息公众的愤怒。
16. They may even seek to assuage concerns by taking on even more foreign currency debt.
    他们甚至可能通过举借更多外币债务，试图平息担忧。
17. "I satisfy myself" was his private law, but so to do he must assuage and control the prejudices of other men.
    “我行我素”是他个人的信条，但是要这样办，他就必须要缓和和控制别人的成见。
18. They hire you because you assuage their sense of guilt.
    他们请你是因为你能减轻他们罪恶的感觉。
19. By having your athletes simplify the sport and recognize that all they need to do to have a good race is swim, it helps to build their confidence and assuage their fears.
    让你的运动员把运动简单化，并让他们意识到，要想游的好他们要做的就是游，这可以帮助树立他们的自信心并缓和他们的恐惧心理。
20. He tried to calm the woman but could not assuage her terror.
    他努力想使这女人安静下来，但无法减轻她的恐惧。
21. Charlotte would assuage him with some peculiar triumph of her culinary art.
    夏洛特会用烹饪术的某种独特的成就使他平息下去。
22. Amid growing nervousness in financial markets over whether countries including Spain and Portugal can repair their public finances, Madrid yesterday launched a PR offensive to try to assuage investors 'fears.
    在金融市场日益紧张、担心西班牙和葡萄牙等国无力修复公共财务之际，马德里方面昨日发起了一场公共攻势，试图平息投资者的忧虑。
23. It might help assuage worries about how deep the bank's mortgage problems might be and how long it might take to settle them.
    这可能帮助缓和银行借贷问题有多深的担忧和还要花多长时候来解决银行借贷问题的担心。
24. The European Central Bank believes greater transparency about the state of Member States 'banks could help to assuage investors' fears about the eurozone and has been exerting intense behind-the-scenes pressure.
    欧洲央行（ecb）相信，增加其成员国银行状况的透明度，可以有助于缓和投资者对于欧元区的担忧，所以，该机构一直在幕后施加着巨大压力。
25. China has recently sought to assuage concerns by touting its efforts to be more transparent.
    近来，中国竭力宣传自己在增强透明度方面所做的努力，努力平息外界的担忧。
26. China executed two men yesterday in an apparent attempt to assuage public anger at the tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and damaged the country's reputation.
    中国昨日处决了两名人犯，试图平息毒奶粉丑闻引发的公愤。毒奶粉事件导致至少6名儿童死亡，并损害了中国的声誉。
27. Does that assuage your guilt?
    这是不是缓和了你的罪恶感？
28. I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.
    我不能否认，不管他的忧伤是为了什么，我都为他的忧伤感到忧伤，并愿意不惜一切来减轻它。
29. Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.
    你带来的这些振奋人心的消息一定能减轻她的痛苦。
30. Taking action to assuage skittish policy makers, on the other hand, is good politics but bad economics.
    另一方面，采取行动来安抚紧张的政策制定者，虽然从政治层面来看是个不错的做法，但从经济层面来看却是个烂招。

verb

1. provide physical relief, as from pain
   1. This pill will relieve your headaches

   Synonym:    relievealleviatepalliate

2. satisfy (thirst)
   1. The cold water quenched his thirst

   Synonym:    quenchslakeallay

3. cause to be more favorably inclined
   1. She managed to mollify the angry customer

   Synonym:    pacifylenifyconciliateappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle