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

• 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。
• 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）。
• Her letter allayed all his anxieties.
  她的来信消除了他的忧虑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His fear was allayed by the news that his family was safe.
  他全家平安的消息消除了他的忧虑。
• 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。
• His fever was allayed by the medicine.
  这药使他的烧退了。
• And the jealousies of jarring interests are allayed by the composition and functions of the great national councils annually assembled from all quarters of the Union at this place.
  不和利益之间的嫉妒也为每年在此处举行的集合自联邦各地的伟大国家议会的组成和功用所缓和。