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

• 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）。
• If children are involved, schools must also be found and fears about transition allayed.
  如果孩子也要迁往国外，必须要找到合适的学校，同时减轻孩子们在过渡期的担忧。
• 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。
• 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。
• Doucet allayed those fears by saying the total cost of the project includes transmission costs within the Congo and beyond.
  杜斯特的话消除了人们的这些担心。他说，项目的总成本中包括了在刚果国内建立输电线路的费用以及其它费用。
• Although the eurozone has taken robust action in reining in fiscal deficits and investor concerns over bank risk should be allayed if the stress tests are handled professionally, substantial longer term problems exist there.
  尽管欧元区已采取有力措施控制财政赤字，而且如果压力测试处理得当，投资者对银行风险的担忧应会减轻，但大量的较长期问题仍然存在。
• Her letter allayed all his anxieties.
  她的来信消除了他的忧虑。
• His fever was allayed by the medicine.
  这药使他的烧退了。
• His decision to shift to making computer printers, among other things, has been well received internally but has not yet allayed investor fears that Kodak is destined to be a casualty of the digital revolution.
  他决定转型生产其他产品，其中就有电脑打印机，这个决定为内部所接受，但尚未减轻投资者的担忧，他们担心，柯达注定会成为数字革命的牺牲品。