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
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- a placating smile
表示和解的微笑 - The concessions did little to placate the students.
让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
- a placating smile
柯林斯词典
- VERB 安抚;抚慰
If youplacatesomeone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry.- He smiled, trying to placate me...
他微笑着,想要安抚我。 - '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。”
- He smiled, trying to placate me...
英英释义
verb
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
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。