assuage
/əˈsweɪdʒ/VCE📚 17454托福If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 缓解; 减轻
verb [vt. 及物动词]vt. 平息；缓和；减轻
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
为了缓解妻子的悲伤，他带她去欧洲旅游了一趟。
ass (驴子) + u + age (年龄) → 驴子上了年纪， 应该减轻负担 → 减轻
单词造句:
- 网友用“Assuage”造句精选
- Rather than offering a voucher when something goes awry, she suggests that businesses should hand over the real deal to assuage upset customers. 她建议，当出了岔子时，企业应该拿出实物来平息顾客的烦躁情绪，而不是提供什么代金券。
- The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt. 蓬勃发展的经济似乎并没有怎么缓解这一代人，尤其是那些背负大学债务的人的潜在焦虑感。