assuage

assuage

英 [ə'sweɪdʒ]
　　美 [ə'swedʒ]

vt. 平息；緩和；減輕

中文詞源：

assuage 緩和

前綴as- 同ad-. 詞根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.

例句：

1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.
這種藥用來止痛.

2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
和她交談減輕瞭我的負罪感.

3. To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
為瞭減輕妻子的悲痛，他帶她去瞭歐洲旅遊。

4. She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
她裝出一副慈母的樣子隻是想要減輕自己的罪惡感。

5. " I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.
“ 我來到這個世上隻是為瞭滿足我父母的生育虛榮心. ” 她忿忿地說.