assuage
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [??swe?d?]
- 美式音標 [??swe?d?]
- 國際音標 [?'sweid?]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- vt.減輕
- n.緩和，減輕
詞根記憶
- 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
英漢例句
- 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.
詞組短語
- 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.