allayed

英 [əˈleɪd]

美 [əˈleɪd]

v.  减轻(尤指情绪)
allay的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 消除（疑虑、恐惧等）
  If youallaysomeone's fears or doubts, you stop them feeling afraid or doubtful.
  1. He did what he could to allay his wife's fears.
     他竭尽所能来消除妻子的各种恐惧。

双语例句

• Japanese history books sometimes disagree with those of its neighbours, and japan's apologies for its treatment of them during the second world war have not fully allayed their suspicions.
  日本历史教科书时而会与邻国教材内容相左，而日本在关于二战期间对待邻国做法方面的道歉，也没有完全打消这些国家的疑虑。
• Laying their katana swords at the gate, through the tea ceremony ritual they allayed worries of impending war and death.
  武士们把刀（katana）放在门口，通过茶道仪式，他们可以减缓对随之而来的战争与死亡的忧虑。
• Because of seepage-stress coupling, the rock movement resulted from disposal of abandoned stopes is allayed.
  由于水力耦合，采空区处理引起岩移量降低。
• UNITAID allayed the fears, saying that both low and middle income countries would benefit.
  UNITAID缓解了这种担忧，它说低收入国家和中等收入国家都将受益。
• The duchess, who appears to struggle to speak and often needs support to walk, allayed her children's worries by dividing up her fortune in early July, reported media, including Spanish celebrity magazine Hola!
  包括西班牙名流杂志Hola在内的媒体报道，女公爵说话的时候有点困难并且走路时经常需要搀扶，为了减轻子女的担忧，她在七月初就将自己的财产分给了他们。
• It seldom happens that any felicity cues so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.& Miguel de Cervantes
  任何幸福，都不会十分纯粹，多少总掺杂着一些悲哀。&塞万提斯
• Despite failing to bring much further reform, it has clearly allayed the market's dread.
  尽管没有带来进一步的改革，它已清楚地减轻市场的恐惧。
• Her letter allayed all his anxieties.
  她的来信消除了他的忧虑。
• In the perfect chess combination as in a first-rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment.
  完美的象棋组合犹如一篇第一流的短篇故事，正反双方应该导致一场最后的战斗终曲，直到最后那刻之前，趣味始终高涨。
• Fears that global exchange consolidation may prompt the US to extend its regulatory reach will be allayed today when the US futures watchdog will rule out extending its supervision to London-based ICE Futures.
  担心全球交易所合并潮流可能促使美国延伸其监管触角的人，今天可以松口气。美国期货监管机构表示，将不会把监管之手延伸至伦敦的ICE期货交易所（ICEFutures）。