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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He smiled, trying to placate me
他微笑着，想要安抚我。 - The desire of politicians to placate the public.
政治家们想要安抚公众的愿望。 - 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。 - Lenders may be harder to placate than diplomats.
放贷者可能会比外交家更难安抚。 - China, however, appears to have outsmarted its rivals in recent months by taking steps – some symbolic and some real – to placate its African critics.
然而，中国似乎巧妙地胜过了对手们，在近几个月里采取一些措施有些是象征性的，也有些是实质性的以安抚非洲的批评人士。 - 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。