英语释义

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;

  "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;

  "she tempered her criticism"

• make less rigid or softer

片语

to mollify劝解

harrow mollify伤害

bait mollify使生气

badger-mollify使平静

mollify vex平息

mollify rouse平息

mollify ire缓和

mollify y安慰

assuage平息；缓和；减轻

relax放松；使休息；使松弛；缓和；使松懈

英汉例句

• many firms have already cut the bonuses of top executives, in part to mollify lawmakers demanding cuts in pay for companies that take government money.

  许多公司已经削减了高管奖金，国会要求接受政府资金的公司削减薪酬的压力发挥了一定作用。

• the investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.

  展开调查主要是为了安抚那些压力集团。

• she managed to mollify the angry customer.

  她设法安抚这位愤怒的客户.

• he has sent a succession of senior officials to moscow to mollify russia, with little success.

  他已经派出一连串高级官员前往莫斯科对俄罗斯进行安抚，成效甚微。

• hard discipline may be needed to preserve the euro, and to mollify german voters who do not want to bankroll irresponsible neighbours.

  强硬的规则是必要的，可以保护欧元，也可以安抚不愿再为不负责任的邻国掏腰包的德国选民。

• that, argues julian schweitzer, director of health at the world bank, points to an important insight that should mollify the critics.

  世界银行卫生部主任julianschweitzer表示这正指出了很重要的、能够平息反对意见的一点。

• such a move will probably mollify shareholders who have complained about mismanagement at the company.

  这样的行动有可能缓和股东们对公司管理失当的怨气。

• the inves-tigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.

  展开调查主要是为了安抚那些压力集团。

• we tried to mollify the hysterical child by promising her many gifts.

  我们答应给这个患歇斯底里病的孩子许多礼物,为的是使她平静下来.

• after the lasker award ceremony, tu seemed eager to mollify the critics, telling xinhua news agency, 「i think the honor not only belongs to me but also to all chinese scientists.」

  屠呦呦获拉斯克奖后似乎切望缓和与批评者的关系，她告诉新华社 ：「我想这个荣誉不仅仅属于我个人，也属于我们中国科学家群体」。

• whereas mr haniyeh has invited mr abbas to gaza, to mollify the protesters and show willing to seek reconciliation, his military wing displays scant interest in sharing power.

  尽管哈尼亚已经邀请阿巴斯到加沙来安抚抗议者，表现出了寻求重新和解的意愿，但是他的军队阵营却对分权没有什么兴趣。

• meanwhile, staff at the un mission in baghdad are drawing up lists of possible concessions that might mollify all sides.

  同时，联合国驻巴格达代表团人员草拟了一份可能平息各方的让步清单。

• make an extra effort to mollify that person and stroke his ego, because doing otherwise is 「like slapping a sleeping tiger.」

  你得多花点心思安抚他，并迎合其自尊心，因为如果不这样的话，就「等于去摸老虎的屁股」。

• mr museveni therefore remains the favourite for the 2011 election, but much will depend on his ability to mollify the buganda in what will be a contentious, and perhaps bloody, process.

  这样看来穆塞韦尼总统仍然是2011年竞选中被认为会获胜的竞选人，但是这很大程度上要看他抚慰布干达的能力，这将是一个容易引起争论的，甚至可能会流血的过程。

• she managed to mollify her angry boss.

  她顺利平息了她生气的老板.

• the company has made tweaks to its search engine to mollify rivals and head off a possible legal clash with antitrust authorities.

  公司开始调整其搜索引擎来平息竞争者的不满，并尽可能避免和反垄断组织的法律沖突。

• ceo brian moynihan may have hoped that predicting $45 billion to $50 billion in earnings down the road would mollify investors distressed at the bank「s $5.8 billion in losses over the last two years.

  美国银行的ceobrianmoynihan希望将来业务上预期有450亿到500亿美元的收益会安抚一下投资者对该银行过去两年中的580亿美元的损失。

• he could maintain an existing agreement with america, which would mollify the administration, and hope that the anger in okinawa is eventually forgotten by much of the electorate.

  他可以与美方维持现在已有的协定以此安抚领导层，并希望沖绳人民的愤怒将渐渐为大多数选民们所遗忘。

• the president」s comments , however, did little to mollify the project「s opponents.

  但是, 总统的解释只能稍许缓和这股对项目的反对浪潮.

• you can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole.

  不可能取悦、平息或改造一个混蛋。

• the president」s comments, however did little to mollify the project「s opponents.

  总统的这番话并没有平息反对这个计划的人的愤怒。

• at the ministry of higher education, where officials try to mollify petitioners, tahar labassi, a linguistics professor drafted in to serve as chief of cabinet, thinks the state may cease to function.

  在官员试图安抚请愿者的高等教育部，被抽调为内阁首席的语言学教授taharlabassi认为，国家可能会停止运转。

• arguments about macroeconomics are unlikely to mollify motorists cross about the cost of filling up their tanks.

  概括的宏观经济争论不太可能帮助驾驶者们装满他们的邮箱。

• say something to mollify his anger.

  你去解劝几句,叫他别生气了.

• but it failed to mollify people in the bureaucracies and institutions that each side had built during four years of rule in the two territories.

  但是两派四年分治时设立在各自领地的机关单位中的人员并未从中得到慰藉。

• china」s central government has taken dramatic steps to mollify public anger in the latest tainted-food scandal.

  在最近的这次事件中，中央政府花了很大力气来平息公众愤怒。

• to mollify the oil firms, it now says it will discuss how these allowances might be extended further.

  为了抚慰石油公司，政府现在表示它要讨论将这些免税额如何可能进一步延长。

• this failed to mollify macau's critics.

  这种做法不能平息澳门评论家的声音.

• britain’s plans were caught in a contradiction: seeking both to save the banks, which need a staggering sum, and also to mollify voters, who (understandably) resent handing over a single penny.

  英国的计划左右为难：这个方案既要能拯救银行但需要耗资巨大，且要抚慰选民，需要谅解他们目前不愿意多花一分钱。

• presumably, the only thing that will mollify kyl and others would be new warheads.

  大概，唯一能让卡尔和其他人住嘴的是新弹头。

相似词

lessen减少；减轻；变小

pacify使平静；安慰；平定

soften减轻；变柔和；变柔软

loosen(Loosen)人名；(德)洛森

quell(Quell)人名；(捷)奎尔；(西)克利

alleviate减轻，缓和

相反词

exasperate恶化；使恼怒；激怒