allay是什么意思_allay怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

allay: allay: [OE] In Old English, alecgan meant literally ‘lay aside’ (-a ‘away, aside, out’, lecgan ‘lay’). The more recent senses ‘relieve, mitigate’ developed from the 13th to the 15th centuries owing to the influence of two formally similar Old French verbs: aleger ‘lighten’ (from Latin alleviāre, source of English alleviate [15]); and al(e)ier ‘qualify, moderate’ (source of English alloy).
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allay (v.): Old English alecgan "to put down, remit, give up," a Germanic compound (cognates: Gothic uslagjan, Old High German irleccan, German erlegen), from a- "down, aside" + lecgan "to lay" (see lay).

Early Middle English pronunciations of -y- and -g- were not always distinct, and the word was confused in Middle English with various senses of Romanic-derived alloy and allege, especially the latter in an obsolete sense of "to lighten," from Latin ad- "to" + levis (see lever).
Amid the overlapping of meanings that thus arose, there was developed a perplexing network of uses of allay and allege, that belong entirely to no one of the original vbs., but combine the senses of two or more of them. [OED]
The double -l- is 17c., a mistaken Latinism. Related: Allayed; allaying.

词态变化

第三人称单数 allays;
过去式 allayed;
过去分词 allayed;
现在分词 allaying;

权威造句

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。

2. The police tried to allay her fears but failed.: 警察力图减轻她的恐惧,但是没有收到什么效果.

3. They are trying to allay public fears about the spread of the disease.: 他们正竭力减轻公众对这种疾病传播的恐惧.

4. Despite its condescension toward the Bennet family, the letter begins to allay Elizabeth"s prejudice against Darcy.: 尽管这封信对班纳特家的态度很高傲, 但它开始消除伊丽莎白对达西的偏见.

5. Father helped to allay her fears.: 父亲帮助她消除恐惧.

近反义词

relieve 救济

calm 平静的

alleviate 减轻

assuage 缓和

dispel 驱散

moderate 适度的

ease 容易

quiet 安静的

pacify 使 ... 平静

lessen 减少

appease 安抚

soften (使)变柔和

loosen 松开

conciliate 安抚

check 检查

restrain 抑制

lower 低的

slake 消除

quench 熄灭

still 静止的

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单词分析

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记忆方法

1. a- "intensive prefix, 这里在单词中受lay(放下)的影响，强化为表示: down, aside" + -l- (由于受ad-同化规律的误导，而产生的误写、误拼，然后就将错就错了) + lay "放下、搁下，lay, put, place".
2. => put down. => alleviate.
3. “啊累！”，要求“减轻”工作量。

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