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assuage

英 [ə'sweɪdʒ] 美[ə'swedʒ]

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近义词calm restrain alleviate allay lessen quiet relieve moderate ease pacify

vt. 平息；缓和；减轻

GRE扩展词汇

词态变化

第三人称单数: assuages;过去式: assuaged;过去分词: assuaged;现在分词: assuaging;

中文词源

assuage 缓和

前缀as- 同ad-. 词根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.

英文词源

assuage: assuage: see persuade
assuage (v.): c. 1300, from Anglo-French assuager, Old French assoagier "soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify," from Vulgar Latin *adsuaviare, from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + suavis "sweet, agreeable" (see sweet (adj.)). For sound development in French, compare deluge from Latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. Related: Assuaged; assuaging.

双语例句

1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.: 这种药用来止痛.

2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.: 和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. " I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.: “ 我来到这个世上只是为了满足我父母的生育虚荣心. ” 她忿忿地说.