- 1緩和、撫平（不好的感覺）
To assuage a feeling is to make it less sharp — not to delete it, just to take the sting down. People assuage guilt, fear, anger, or grief; they also assuage hunger or thirst, which is a slightly older, more physical use of the same idea: you sweeten the discomfort. It is a formal, verb. In a café you would say calm down, ease, or make it better; in a novel or a careful essay, assuage sounds right. You assuage something in someone (her fears, his doubts), or a feeling of your own. It does not usually mean you fixed the real problem — only that the unpleasant feeling is not pressing so hard. A kind word can assuage worry without changing the facts. That gap between “feels better” and “is better” is part of how the word is really used.
組成From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to calm”), from a spoken Latin form *assuāviō (“to sweeten, to calm”), built from Latin ad- (“toward”) + suāvis (“sweet”) + a verb ending. The old picture is “to make it sweeter.”
同家族的字
- suaveboth go back to Latin suāvis, “sweet”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
assuageverb/əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
- Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.
- to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
- 2
To pacify or soothe (someone).
- 3
obsoleteTo calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
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