To allay a feeling is to make it less sharp — especially fear, worry, or suspicion. You allay someone's fears, allay concern, allay public anger. The feeling does not always vanish; it sits more quietly.

To allay a feeling is to make it less sharpallay一種情緒，就是讓它變得沒那麼強烈 — especially fear, worry, or suspicion尤其是恐懼、擔憂或懷疑。You allay someone's fears你allay某人的恐懼, allay concern安撫憂慮, allay public anger平息大眾的怒氣。The feeling does not always vanish這種情緒不一定會完全消失; it sits more quietly它只是變得比較平靜。

News, speeches, and careful writing use this verb a lot; in ordinary talk people more often say calm, ease, or quiet. You allay a feeling (or the worry in a person), not a noise and not a delay.

News, speeches, and careful writing use this verb a lot新聞、演講和講究的寫作很常用這個動詞; in ordinary talk people more often say calm, ease, or quiet日常口語裡，人們比較常說calm、ease或quiet。You allay a feeling (or the worry in a person)你allay的是一種情緒（或一個人心裡的擔憂）, not a noise and not a delay而不是噪音，也不是延誤。

Though actually, older and more literary English also allays pain, hunger, or thirst — 'make it bite less' — but that use is thinning out. Today's word is almost always this 'make the fear smaller' verb, and the noun is rare.

Though actually不過事實上, older and more literary English also allays pain, hunger, or thirst比較舊、比較文學性的英文也會用allay來形容減輕疼痛、飢餓或口渴 — 'make it bite less'也就是『讓它咬人咬得沒那麼痛』 — but that use is thinning out但這個用法已經越來越少見。Today's word is almost always this 'make the fear smaller' verb現在這個字幾乎都只用在『讓恐懼變小』這個意思上, and the noun is rare而名詞形式很少見。