mollify
英 [ˈmɒlɪfaɪ]
美 [ˈmɑːlɪfaɪ]
v. 使平静; 抚慰
过去分词:mollified 过去式:mollified 现在分词:mollifying 第三人称单数:mollifies
BNC.21154 / COCA.21490
牛津词典
verb
- 使平静;抚慰
to make sb feel less angry or upset
柯林斯词典
- VERB 抚慰;安抚
If youmollifysomeone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry.- The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.
展开调查主要是为了安抚那些压力集团。
- The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.
英英释义
verb
- make less rigid or softer
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- she tempered her criticism
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
双语例句
- Say something to mollify his anger.
你去解劝几句,叫他别生气了。 - When Cathrine took him at his word, and consented to renounce the attempt to mollify her father, he drew back skillfully enough.
当凯瑟琳听从他的话答应放弃抚慰父亲的努力时,他巧妙地退却了。 - The current secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, called Turkey's foreign minister, prime minister and president to mollify them.
现任国务卿康多莉扎?赖斯(CondoleezzaRice)拜访了土耳其外长、总理和总统,以安抚他们。 - A shorter working week has been proposed to mollify the effects of the new working arrangements.
一个较短的上作周被建议用来缓和新的工作安排的影响。 - To answer it with perfect storms and an Alzheimer's fun run might mollify some, but if I were an investor I would be not merely tearful, but quite put out, too.
用完美风暴和老年痴呆症的笑话可能会安抚部分投资者,但换了我,将不仅仅会流泪,还会撤资。 - But this has done little to mollify Beijing, which has portrayed the prize as a western plot to undermine China.
但这无助于安抚北京方面,北京将该奖描述为西方破坏中国的一个阴谋。 - No matter which it is mollify of music all can encouragement you.
不论哪一种缓和的音乐都可以鼓励你。 - He tried to mollify his father's anger by apologizing.
他企图以认错来减缓他父亲的怒气。 - Something that'll mollify the right.
这些话要能安抚一下右翼。 - But Samsung's rapid response to the indictment fit a pattern for the way it has coped with other high-profile legal difficulties in recent years: by quickly taking big steps to mollify public anger.
但是三星集团对赵俊雄的声明迅速做出的反应倒是和它一贯作风相符,近年来该公司在卷入闹得沸沸扬扬的法律纠纷时总能在第一时间出手、平息众怒。