assuaged

英 [əˈsweɪdʒd] 美 [əˈsweɪdʒd]

v.  缓和，减轻(不快)
assuage的过去分词和过去式

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  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。
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双语例句

  1. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
    他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
  2. S.jobs, which is fueling rhetoric in presidential and congressional campaigns, is unlikely to be assuaged by a modest acceleration of the yuan's appreciation against the dollar.
    人民币兑美元汇率升值速度的温和加快不大可能缓解美国人对中国与之争夺就业机会的忧虑，这种担忧正日益成为美国总统和国会选举中的热门话题。
  3. 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。
  4. When Thain convened a town hall meeting that afternoon to discuss the deal with Merrill Lynch employees, whatever misgivings he had about the sale were assuaged by the huge round of applause that greeted him.
    当天下午塞恩召开全体员工会议，与美林员工讨论这项交易。不管他对这笔交易存在多大疑虑，迎接他的热烈欢呼声都让他心里踏实了许多。
  5. But they have a long way to go before public opinion is assuaged.
    但是他们还有很长的路要走民意消除。
  6. On that day, however, the unripe jujubes had been green and bitter, and made your stomach bloated. At least they assuaged your hunger.
    那时节的河畔枣又青又涩，吃得你肚子发胀，可是你一点儿也不饿了。
  7. Market fears of bank insolvency, particularly, have been assuaged.
    市场对银行资不抵债的担忧，尤其得到了舒缓。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. Her thirst for knowledge could never be assuaged.
    她对知识的渴求永远无法满足。
  11. 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。
  12. Although my trepidation was not completely assuaged, I was excited.
    虽然我的种种担心并没有完全缓和，我还是很激动。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. Physical nature can be assuaged through exercise and care, emotional nature through indulgence of instinct and urges, and mental through human reason and developed potential.
    物理性质可以通过行使安抚和照顾，情感自然放纵的本能，并敦促，并通过人类理性精神和发展潜力。
  16. 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。
  17. That could either be because its wartime behaviour was intrinsically more heinous than any other nation, or because its neighbours still do not feel properly assuaged.
    这或许是因为其战时行为在性质上比其他任何国家都更令人发指，或是因为其邻国仍觉得自己的伤痛没有得到妥善抚平。
  18. As demand for higher productivity increases, farmers of dairy cows are increasing faced with the need to supplement energy sources that could not longer be assuaged by the feeding of more dry matter.
    随着对较高生产力的要求的增长，奶牛饲养者提高了对补充能量的来源的重视，这一情况已不能通过喂更多干饲料来缓解。
  19. 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
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