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

• The letter made him furious, and it took some time to placate him.
  那封信使他很生气，花了好长时间才使他平静下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In companies that obtained financial assistance from governments, there has been a move to increase salaries to offset the reduction in bonuses necessary to placate public opinion and the authorities.
  获得政府资金救助的公司采取了提高工资的举措，以抵消为了安抚舆论和政府机构所必需奖金削减。
• '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。”
• You had better placate your parent's angry.
  你最好安抚你家人的怒气。
• 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%。