| 词汇 | allay |
| 释义 | allay verb[ T ] formaluk /əˈleɪ/ us /əˈleɪ/ If you allay a strong emotion felt by someone, such as fear or worry, you cause them to feel it less or to feel calm again: 减轻，缓解（担忧、恐惧等） The government is trying to allay public fears/concern about the spread of the disease.政府正努力消除公众对疾病蔓延的恐惧／担心。 Making things better add salt to somethingidiom alleviate alleviation ameliorate amelioration cultivate liven (something) up lubricate make a differenceidiom make a world of differenceidiom make someone/something over remedial restructure revamp revitalize revivify revolutionize salve sharpen tonic allay | American Dictionaryallay verb[ T ] us/əˈleɪ/ to make a negative emotion less strong or a problem less difficult: I was nervous, but seeing her allayed my fears. Examples of allayallay My aim is merely to allay worries about holding ethical theories answerable to moral norms in the way that my present proposal does. This meant that only such incidents as were amenable to this kind of proof could be considered, but it allays scepticism about the woman's allegations. Thus, for many of these children, the natural basis for allaying fear is also a source of their threat. Yet once one has identified problems in known material it is difficult to allay suspicion. Considerable care was taken to allay anxieties about the constitutional implications of this particular marriage. On the other hand, to the extent that the novel is a literary genre, it helps allay the concern that cultural studies displaces literary studies. This procedure should ensure that concerns over possible bias caused by using a purely systematic method of collection are allayed. The fact that there are other potential entrepreneurs that could take over if the incumbent shirks its duties helps allay such fears. Informed consent does not allay the surplus of ethical affairs that surface in biographical work. The promise of genetics to introduce universally available improvements in future generations does not suffice to allay our concerns. The proposal of a locally-based board did little to allay suspicions of controlled marketing. It has rarely been possible to allay anxieties fully: so many of the questions could only be given provisional answers until national frameworks are established. This shock led commentators and practitioners (many of whose doubts had never been fully allayed) publicly to recant. This study would seem to allay at least some of that fear. A final point is to allay concerns over the introduction of numerical computation into phonology. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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