assuage

/əˈsweɪdʒ/VCE📚 17454托福
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 缓解; 减轻

verb [vt. 及物动词]vt. 平息;缓和;减轻

To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
为了缓解妻子的悲伤,他带她去欧洲旅游了一趟。

ass (驴子) + u + age (年龄) → 驴子上了年纪, 应该减轻负担 → 减轻
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Rather than offering a voucher when something goes awry, she suggests that businesses should hand over the real deal to assuage upset customers. 她建议,当出了岔子时,企业应该拿出实物来平息顾客的烦躁情绪,而不是提供什么代金券。
The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt. 蓬勃发展的经济似乎并没有怎么缓解这一代人,尤其是那些背负大学债务的人的潜在焦虑感。