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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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

• cause to be more favorably inclined
  1. She managed to mollify the angry customer
  Synonym:pacifylenifyconciliateassuageappeasemollifygentlegruntle

双语例句

• 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。
• Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
  服装和面具也穿在节日，企图模仿邪灵或安抚他们。
• '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。”
• In a bid to placate airbus, the British government this week announced it would finance research into new computer-modelling techniques at several British universities, to help Airbus speed up product development by as much as90%.
  为了安抚空客，英国政府在本周宣布将对数所英国大学进行的电脑建模技术的研究提供资金，以协助空客将产品开发速度提高90%。
• Nobody would tell her the truth, they were all too anxious to placate and to soothe.
  谁也不愿告诉她事实真相，他们都急于安慰她。
• Lenders may be harder to placate than diplomats.
  放贷者可能会比外交家更难安抚。
• If there are any signs of changes in the right direction occurring, I think that will be enough to placate the American people.
  如果出现任何迹象，显示我们在向好的方向作出改变，我想这就足以安抚美国民众。
• Accommodation failed to placate the critics and may have demoralized supporters of a strong defense.
  迁就没有能安抚批评者，而可能使强大防务的支持者灰心丧气。
• 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。
• Evra concedes that Owen's strike was vital not only for the points and to placate manager Sir Alex Ferguson, but also to deal City's cash-powered revolution an early setback.
  埃弗拉认为欧文的射门不仅帮曼联取得了分数，也帮了经理弗格森的大忙。也让曼城的金钱革命一开始就遭遇了挫折。