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/ˌriːəˈʃʊr/ · /ˌriːəˈʃʊə/
To say or do something that makes a worried person feel calm again.
使放心；安撫
過去式 reassured過去分詞 reassured-ing reassuring三單 reassures
核心畫面
Picture someone whose footing has just slipped — worried, unsure, half-expecting bad news. You step in with words that put the ground back under them: it's fine, I checked, nothing is wrong. The word is about restoring a calm that was already there before the worry arrived.
可以想成：對方本來心是穩的，遇到事情之後晃了一下，開始往壞處想。你走過去，用一句話把那份穩定「再裝回去」——不是給他…更多收起
可以想成：對方本來心是穩的，遇到事情之後晃了一下，開始往壞處想。你走過去，用一句話把那份穩定「再裝回去」——不是給他新的信心，而是把他原本就有的安心感還給他。所以 reassure 幾乎都出現在有人已經在擔心的場合，說話的人負責把那顆懸著的心放下來。原始詞典資料2 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。
reassureverb/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/
- 1
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
- The boy's mother reassured him that there was no monster hiding under the bed.
- What is more, I call upon the greater part of you as witnesses to my statement, and I appeal to all of you who have ever listened to me talking (and there are a great many to whom this applies) to reassure one another on this point.
- 2
To reinsure.
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。