0 to make unpleasant feelings less strong -- 缓和；减轻；平息
The government has tried to assuage the public's fears. 政府努力消除公众的恐慌。
To assuage the collective anxiety produced by this abrupt transition, individuals quickly abandoned their social and political liberties to an absolutist state.
This is because any other patron can assuage their socio-economic needs.
Then, by assuaging and resolving the ensuing distress, successful completion of the ritual performance authenticates the religious thoughts and actions.
Once again, an appropriate ritual to assuage febrile popular sentiment had to be devised.
As the authors remark, however, one can certainly imagine scenarios where human cloning would provide a means of assuaging grief, without any great ethical problems.
The development of new research directions might help to assuage the concerns of some commentators.
As discussed in that section, there are many potential applications of such a higher level organization, including the potential to assuage the sparse data problem.
On the contrary the business class often used them to assuage and manipulate popular sentiments to promote its business interests.
