assuage
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
- 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
短语
英英字典
- to make unpleasant feelings less strong
- 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.