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placate

英 [pləˈkeɪt]

美 [ˈpleɪkeɪt]

v.  安抚; 平息(怒气)

现在分词:placating 过去分词:placated 过去式:placated 第三人称单数:placates 

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Collins.1 / BNC.14004 / COCA.16057

牛津词典

    verb

    • 安抚;平息(怒气)
      to make sb feel less angry about sth
      1. a placating smile
        表示和解的微笑
      2. The concessions did little to placate the students.
        让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。

    柯林斯词典

    • VERB 安抚;抚慰
      If youplacatesomeone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry.
      1. He smiled, trying to placate me...
        他微笑着,想要安抚我。
      2. 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice.
        阿格纽用抚慰的语气说:“我不是有意让你不高兴。”

    英英释义

    verb

    双语例句

    • 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。
    • So a sincere and friendly attempt to placate your nemesis may strike him or her as a pleasant surprise.
      所以如果以诚意和善意去安抚抱怨者,对他/她来说会是个意外之喜。
    • Watch for China to increase its capital flows to the emerging markets to placate critics.
      让我们等待中国增加对新兴市场的资金流动,以安抚批评者吧。
    • You had better placate your parent's angry.
      你最好安抚你家人的怒气。
    • He also tried to placate some of the non-brics by offering a new term: the "N-11", or next eleven nations on the list to emerge as powers.
      他还提出一个新词来安抚一些非金砖四国国家,这个词就是“n-11”,即接下来将成为强国的11个国家。
    • To placate the Parliament and the opposition, the government raised the bar for citizenship. Strict due diligence standards were set to weed out money launderers and criminals.
      为了安抚议会和反对派,政府提高了获得公民身份的门槛,设定了严格的尽职调查标准,以剔除洗钱者和犯罪分子。
    • Only when I quit business and academe to write, and did not have to placate clients or potential benefactors, could I openly say that the conventional wisdom was in error.
      只有当我退出商界和学术界从事写作、而不必安抚客户或潜在的捐助人时,我才可以公开表示,传统智慧误入了歧途。
    • He smiled, trying to placate me
      他微笑着,想要安抚我。
    • Placate the labour unions on Trade and get them to support Mr Obama on healthcare.
      在贸易问题上安抚工会,以便让他们支持奥巴马的医改方案。
    • 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice.
      阿格纽用抚慰的语气说:“我不是有意让你不高兴。”