喜樂美語
  1. 1vC1/ˌriːəˈʃʊr/ · /ˌriːəˈʃʊə/使放心；安撫

    To say or do something that makes a worried person feel calm again.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mum reassured Mei that the science test would be fair and clear.

    逐字媽媽使美放心科學測驗會是公平又清楚的。

    「reassure」是讓別人「比較冷靜、比較不擔心」的動詞——對方本來已經在擔心某件事，你用溫柔的話或清楚的事實幫他把心安回來。常見說法：reassure somebody that...、reassure somebody about something、try to reassure。一種想法是：re- 可以想成「再一次」，assure 是「讓人確定」，合起來就像「再幫對方把心安住」。跟 comfort 容易搞混——comfort 帶「溫暖照顧」（抱抱、輕聲安慰）；reassure 更常是「用資訊／保證把擔心削掉」。跟 assure 也近：assure 是「向人保證某事是真的／會發生」；reassure 是「讓已經擔心的人比較安心」。

    常見搭配

    • reassure somebody that ...

      使某人放心……（接 that 子句）

      tell someone something so they feel less worried

      The teacher reassured the class that the homework was short.

    • reassure somebody about something

      使某人對某事放心

      make someone feel less worried about a particular thing

      She reassured her parents about the overnight school trip.

    • try to reassure

      試著安撫／使放心

      make an effort to make someone feel less worried

      He tried to reassure his little sister before the storm.

    • need to be reassured

      需要被安撫／需要被使放心

      need someone to make you feel less worried

      After the loud thunder, the puppy needed to be reassured.

    • feel / find something reassuring

      覺得某事令人安心

      feel calmer because of something

      Mei found her mum's text message very reassuring.

    • reassure investors / parents / voters

      使投資人／家長／選民放心

      make a group of people feel less worried (often public / formal)

      The school wrote a letter to reassure parents about the new schedule.

    用法接近

    assureput someone's mind at easeset someone's mind at restcheer up

core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。

同家族的字

過去式 reassured過去分詞 reassured-ing reassuring三單 reassures

用法接近

assureput someone's mind at easeset someone's mind at restcheer up

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。