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
- 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。 - The tax will placate local government demands for a share in local resources.
此税将安抚当地政府为达到当地资源分享的要求。 - 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。 - I think China is doing this because dogs are becoming increasingly popular pets in China among its wealthier citizens and this planned ban is a great way to placate them.
我认为中国这么做是因为养狗作为宠物在较富裕的国民中慢慢流行开来，这个计划中的禁令是为了讨好这些人。 - 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。 - 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。 - Lenders may be harder to placate than diplomats.
放贷者可能会比外交家更难安抚。 - You had better placate your parent's angry.
你最好安抚你家人的怒气。 - 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。 - 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。