placate
英[plə'keɪt] 美['pleɪkeɪt]
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
1.安抚;抚慰
If youplacate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry.
e.g. He smiled, trying toplacate me...
他微笑着,想要安抚我。
e.g. '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。”
1. placate的意思
1. 常用词还有:soothe v. 缓和,使安静,安慰 | 常用词还有placate, comfort, relieve, ease, pacify, lighten | incommunicative adj.不爱交际的,沉默寡言的
2. 安抚,使和解:Jeopardize 危及,危害 |placate 安抚,使和解 | Corroborate 使巩固,确证
3.
3. 安抚;和解:pinion#束缚 |placate#安抚;和解 | plash#激溅
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。
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。”
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.
There are some who think the Lakers traded for Gasol only to placate Bryant.
很多人都觉得把加索尔交换过来只是湖人用来取悦科比的.
You can rarely , if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole.
你极难取悦 、 安抚 、 改变或抚慰一个让人讨厌之人.
Blankfein was clearly trying to placate the locals and show some kind of contrition.
布兰克费恩显然在尽力抚慰德国人,并表现出一定的悔悟.
Mrs Merkel would be foolish to placate her base by swerving right.
默克尔夫人如果为了安抚她的根基所在而转到右翼就太愚蠢了.
Even a written apology failed to placate the indignant hostess.
甚至一纸书面道歉都没能安抚这个怒气冲冲的女主人.
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.
Whether it can deliver results fast enough to placate US impatience with China is another matter.
至于能否奏效,能否及时平息美国政界对中国的不耐,则是另一回事.
They stress the placate protesters rather than respond with force.
他们把安抚骚动情绪置于反应能力之上.
One is of trying to placate China.
其一是试图安抚中国.
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.
Tigress called over to placate him.
虎妞喊着劝慰.
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.
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 never attempts to placate his enemies.
他从不企图安抚他的敌人.
He never attempts to placate his enemy.
他从不企图与敌人和解.
It's going to take a very good explanation to placate your parents.
要安抚你父母可得好好地解释一番才行.
He smiled, trying to placate me.
他微笑着,想要安抚我。
The concessions did little to placate the students.
让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
Something must be done to placate the rebellious Viennese.
出自:V. BromeAll wives are discontented and can be placated with gifts of jewellery.
出自:A. Brookner