assuage
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英 [?'swe?d?]
美[?'swed?]
- vt. 平息；緩和；減輕
GRE擴展詞匯
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?assuages;過去式:?assuaged;過去分詞:?assuaged;現在分詞:?assuaging;
中文詞源
assuage 緩和
前綴as- 同ad-. 詞根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.
- 這種藥用來止痛.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
- 和她交談減輕了我的負罪感.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
- 為了減輕妻子的悲痛，他帶她去了歐洲旅游。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
- 她裝出一副慈母的樣子只是想要減輕自己的罪惡感。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. " I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.
- “ 我來到這個世上只是為了滿足我父母的生育虛榮心. ” 她忿忿地說.
來自時文部分