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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。