assuage

英 [ə'sweɪdʒ]美 [ə'swedʒ]
  • vt. 平息；缓和；减轻
GRE 扩展词汇

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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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。
来自柯林斯例句
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。
来自柯林斯例句
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.
来自时文部分