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

• 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。
• 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。
• Mr Geithner said China's response on this had not fully allayed American worries, but was "progress".
  盖特纳说道，中国的回应并未完全缓解美国的困扰，但正在有所减轻。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Her letter allayed all his anxieties.
  她的来信消除了他的忧虑。
• Which but to-day by feeding is allayed.
  今天减少是因为填满了沟壑。
• It seldom happens that any felicity comes pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
  当没有混合着悲伤的复杂情绪加以缓和或消解时，幸福感很难纯粹地产生。
• 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。