核心畫面
You can picture assure as taking someone's worry off their shoulders by telling them, firmly, 'it's fine, this is true / this will happen' — you put your own credibility behind the words so they can stop fretting and feel safe.
可以想成：對方心裡懸著一塊石頭，你走過去、語氣很篤定地跟他說「放心，這是真的／這一定會發生」，等於用你自己的信用替他…更多收起
可以想成：對方心裡懸著一塊石頭，你走過去、語氣很篤定地跟他說「放心，這是真的／這一定會發生」，等於用你自己的信用替他把那塊石頭搬走，讓他不必再擔心。assure 的畫面核心比較像「替別人除去不安、讓他安心」。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
assureverb/əˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
- 1
To make sure and secure; ensure.
- 2
To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
- I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
- He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
- 3
obsoleteTo guarantee, promise (to do something).
- That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure.
- 4
To reassure.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。