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

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

双语例句

• Lenders may be harder to placate than diplomats.
  放贷者可能会比外交家更难安抚。
• He never attempt to placate his enemy.
  他从不企图与敌人和解。
• 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。
• To placate the Parliament and the opposition, the government raised the bar for citizenship. Strict due diligence standards were set to weed out money launderers and criminals.
  为了安抚议会和反对派，政府提高了获得公民身份的门槛，设定了严格的尽职调查标准，以剔除洗钱者和犯罪分子。
• 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。
• You had better placate your parent's angry.
  你最好安抚你家人的怒气。
• It's no use trying to placate him, he's furious.
  他正在气头上，你劝他也无济于事。
• 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。
• 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。