vt.减轻;缓和;平息;使安静;
例句:
We project responsibility for the attack outside ourselves in order to assuage our guilt.
为了减轻我们的罪恶感,我们把攻击投射到了外界.
Drug companies are hunting for molecules to assuage brain-related ills, from paralysis to shyness ( see article ).
药物公司在搜寻用以减轻大脑相关疾病的分子, 治愈瘫痪和羞怯 ( 看文章 ).
This is unlikely to assuage critics.
但是这却不大可能平息指责.