assuage
英 [əˈsweɪdʒ]
美 [əˈsweɪdʒ]
记忆“assuage”可以通过它的词根“assu”来联想。想象一只“小猫”因为受伤而哭泣(“u”有哭泣的意思),但是你用温柔和关爱来安慰它(“age”暗示着时间或过程),使得它的痛苦逐渐减轻,即“assuage”表示减轻或缓和痛苦或不满。
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assuage 缓和前缀as- 同ad-. 词根suav, 甜,同sweet, persuade.
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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.
- 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.