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.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
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
- 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
短語
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.