allay
英 [?'le?]
美 [?'le]
助記提示
1. a- "intensive prefix, 這里在單詞中受lay(放下)的影響，強化為表示: down, aside" + -l- (由于受ad-同化規律的誤導，而產生的誤寫、誤拼，然后就將錯就錯了) + lay "放下、擱下，lay, put, place".
2. => put down. => alleviate.
3. “啊累！”，要求“減輕”工作量。
中文詞源
allay 緩和古英語前綴a-, 放下，離開，來自PIE *uz, 詞源同out ，此處受前綴al- 影響俗化. 單詞lay,放置。
英文詞源
- 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).
=> lay - 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.
雙語例句
- 1. He did what he could to allay his wife's fears.
- 他竭盡所能來消除妻子的各種恐懼。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The police tried to allay her fears but failed.
- 警察力圖減輕她的恐懼,但是沒有收到什么效果.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. They are trying to allay public fears about the spread of the disease.
- 他們正竭力減輕公眾對這種疾病傳播的恐懼.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Despite its condescension toward the Bennet family, the letter begins to allay Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy.
- 盡管這封信對班納特家的態度很高傲, 但它開始消除伊麗莎白對達西的偏見.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Father helped to allay her fears.
- 父親幫助她消除恐懼.
來自辭典例句