soothe
soothe 英 [su:ð] 美 [suð]
vt. 安慰；使平静；缓和 vi. 起抚慰作用
进行时:soothing 过去式:soothed 过去分词:soothed 第三人称单数:soothes 名词复数:soothes
- To soothe is to relieve or to bring comfort. If the pounding in your head is driving you mad, it sounds like you might need an aspirin or two to soothe your headache.
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- vt. 安慰；使平静；缓和
- vi. 起抚慰作用
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1. But the release, apparently, was not enough to soothe China’s fury.
但是很明显释放中国船长并不足以缓和中国的愤怒。
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2. And yet I never stopped loving him and using his love like a battery booster whenever I needed to rev up my courage or soothe my sagging spirit.
但是，我对他的爱从未停止过。 而他的爱更是我的充电器，在我需要勇气或是意志消沉的时候给我鼓励和安慰。
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3. Actually there is no necessary relation between loneliness and lover. Some people just use it as an excuse to soothe themselves after the failure of love.
你是否找恋人跟你现在是否寂寞这根本就不着边际，只不过是有些人在恋爱失败之后的一个借口，用来安慰自己的借口。
- soothe (v.) Old English soðian "show to be true," from soð "true" (see sooth). Sense of "quiet, comfort, mollify" is first recorded 1690s, via notion of "to assuage one by asserting that what he says is true" (i.e. to be a yes-man), a sense attested from 1560s (and compare Old English gesoð "a parasite, flatterer"). Meaning "reduce the intensity" (of a pain, etc.) is from 1711. Related: Soothed; soothing.
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