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allayed

/uh-ley/US // əˈleɪ //UK // (əˈleɪ) //

缓解了,缓和了,缓解,缓和

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    al·layed, al·lay·ing.

    • : to put to rest; calm; quiet.
    • : to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate: to allay pain.

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Examples

  • To allay such worries in December, Indonesian President Widodo said that he would be first in line to take the vaccine once approved by Indonesian authorities.

  • The only joy is the momentary spasm of sexual gratification; the only happiness that of (temporarily) allayed jealousy.

  • However, my nervousness was suddenly allayed by a surprising development.

  • Ovid looked a bit doubtful, but Scattergood's voice was so interested, so bland, that any suspicion of irony was allayed.

  • I no longer indulged the ungracious idea of spiting her against me, and, by degrees, all my other fears were allayed.

  • Even then her doubts were allayed by her recognition of certain landmarks which told her she was on the Hertford Road.

  • My exasperation with self was by no means allayed when I tripped over a stone and fell my length in a sludgy patch of swamp.

  • When it was believed that the excitement was allayed another outbreak occurred at Lucknow.