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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

    • A move of this nature certainly would placate the Lakers 'disgruntled star, Kobe Bryant.
      这样的举动当然会安抚一下科比寂寞的心。
    • 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 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。
    • 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。
    • He hoped really to placate Butler in part by generous attitude throughout this procedure.
      他实在希望通过这件事以他大方的态度使巴特勒缓和一些。
    • A breakthrough in either area could be enough to placate shareholders and prevent Microsoft returning at a later date.
      无论在哪个领域取得突破,可能都足以安抚股东情绪,防止微软日后卷土重来。
    • He smiled, trying to placate me
      他微笑着,想要安抚我。
    • In companies that obtained financial assistance from governments, there has been a move to increase salaries to offset the reduction in bonuses necessary to placate public opinion and the authorities.
      获得政府资金救助的公司采取了提高工资的举措,以抵消为了安抚舆论和政府机构所必需奖金削减。
    • The desire of politicians to placate the public.
      政治家们想要安抚公众的愿望。
    • 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。