英语释义

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

  "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

片语

to placate安慰

gall placate使烦恼

disconcert placate使仓皇失措

mollify assuage placate pacify四大安慰

placate rile使焦急

reconcile使一致；使和解；调停，调解；使顺从

placate e安抚

placate peeve抚慰

propitiate抚慰，安抚；与…和解

rile placate使焦急

英汉例句

• no french or belgian politician could have openly agreed with keynes; and even if lloyd george had wanted to, he had to placate the hard-line tories in his coalition government.

  法国和比利时的政治家都不同意凯恩斯的观点；即使劳莱?乔治想这么做，他也必须安抚不愿妥协的保守分子。

• but india, which in the past has mostly sought to placate its more powerful neighbour, is now stiffening its spine.

  印度过去总是试图安抚中国这个强势的邻邦，但最近却挺起了腰桿。

• dalian’s party chief, tang jun, tried to placate the crowd by standing atop a police van, promising through a megaphone that the plant would be relocated.

  大连市委书记唐军站在一辆警车上，通过扬声器承诺工厂将搬到别的地方，以此努力安抚民众。

• politically, the big question is whether beijing will keep up this pace of appreciation against the dollar and whether that will placate the new crowd on capitol hill.

  政治上的最大问题是北京是否将继续这一人民币兑美元升值的步伐，以及此举是否能够安抚国会山上的新议员们。

• to placate conservatives, he promoted nuclear power and recently came out for more offshore oil-drilling.

  为抚慰保守分子，他加大核能的开发利用，并于最近支持更多的近海石油鉆探。

• his mission: to placate the spirit believed to dwell in the mountain.

  他的任务：抚慰据说居住山中的精灵。

• if the us dollar weakens further, fed policy makers will be forced to slow down monetary pumping in order to placate foreign investors.

  如果美元进一步贬值，美联储的决策者就不得不放缓货币的供应速度，来安抚那些外国投资者。

• moses manages to placate god momentarily, and then he turns around to face the people.

  摩西想马上安抚上帝，他把脸转向人民。

• to placate kostya, emil posed a rhetorical question: if bomka has forgotten about us, why are we still getting monthly checks?

  为了安抚克斯特亚，埃米尔反问他：如果博卡真的把我们给忘了的话，为什么我们每月仍然能收到他的支票？

• officials asked fans to remove the offending garments, to placate budweiser, a rival beer brand that was the tournament’s official sponsor.

  而官方为了安抚百威啤酒（那届世界杯的官方赞助商），要求球迷脱掉这些「违反规定」的衣服。

• the minister's cronies have an election coming up, and the best way to placate voters is to promise them land.

  部长的密友马上要参加大选了，抚慰选民最好的方法就是向他们保证可以得到土地。

• until the attack he was able to placate his muslim constituents’ anger at israel’s actions by voicing dismay without actually disrupting ties.

  袭击发生后，他在不损害两国实质关系的前提下对此事件表示震惊以安抚国内民众对以色列袭击行动的愤怒之情。

• so, under american pressure, in 2003 they granted the kurds some autonomy, which the kurds have cherished; the arabs hoped it would be enough to placate them.

  因此，在美国的压力下，伊拉克阿拉伯人于2003年承认了被库尔德人珍视的若干自治权。伊拉克阿拉伯人希望这对于安抚库尔德人是足够的。

• many of the government’s proposals are sensible, but they do not go far enough to placate the students.

  政府的许多提议都很通情达理，但还不足以安抚学生。

• malcolm turnbull, leader of the main opposition liberal party, supports such a scheme. but he wants it delayed to buy him time to placate the powerful global-warming sceptics in his own party.

  虽然最主要的反对党自由党主席马尔科姆·特恩布尔支持该方案，但他希望推迟以换取时间来安抚党内对全球变暖持怀疑的实权派。

• it is also possible that globalisation may come under threat as governments seek to placate their voters by protecting local jobs and industries.

  全球化也可能面临保护主义的威胁，因为这时候政府要通过保护地方工业和就业来安抚选民。

• it is a stunning look at the orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the state spin their lies and try to recreate reality (i assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear).

  它使人震惊的看到，自然界的老大哥为了在在政治舞台上周旋，说谎和试图编造事实。 （我假装安抚他们的老板和告诉他们那些他们想听到的）。

• after a tea party mutiny derailed the house’s first attempt at the bill, boehner opted to placate his right flank by inserting additional cuts.

  由于茶党的反叛，众议院对此议案的首次表决最终搁浅，之后众议院议长约翰·博纳就开始选择安抚其茶党，同意进行额外的开支削减。

• second is our need to be reassured — to placate our fear of missing out on something 「better」 going on.

  其二，是我们需要得到保证——以安抚我们的恐惧，好像错过了什么更好的。

• to placate those who wanted to see a stricter version, some senators were pushing a provision that would give regulators less say in how to enforce the rule.

  为了安抚那些更严厉版本的支持者，一些议员提出了一个建议：在如何实行法令方面给监管者更少的话语权。

• that may be good news for the state as shareholder, but it does not placate czech consumers, who pay electricity prices that are among the highest in europe on a purchasing-power basis.

  对于国家这个股东而言，这也许是条好消息；却无法安抚捷克的消费者，基于购买力，他们支付的电力价格位于欧洲最高的价位。

• donors need to be patient so charities will not feel pressured to plunge in and offer ineffective aid, simply to placate impatient donors.

  捐赠者需要有耐心。这样慈善组织才能从容地工作，不会为了安抚心急的捐赠者匆忙投入人力物力却事与愿违。

相似词

intervene干涉；调停；插入

harmonize协调；和谐；以和声唱

pacify使平静；安慰；平定

soften减轻；变柔和；变柔软

相反词

enrage激怒；使暴怒