前缀as- 同ad-. 词根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.

1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.

这种药用来止痛.

2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.

和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

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。

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。

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.