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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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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He never attempt to placate his enemy.
  他从不企图与敌人和解。
• 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。
• 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。
• If there are any signs of changes in the right direction occurring, I think that will be enough to placate the American people.
  如果出现任何迹象，显示我们在向好的方向作出改变，我想这就足以安抚美国民众。
• He smiled, trying to placate me
  他微笑着，想要安抚我。
• 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。
• Evra concedes that Owen's strike was vital not only for the points and to placate manager Sir Alex Ferguson, but also to deal City's cash-powered revolution an early setback.
  埃弗拉认为欧文的射门不仅帮曼联取得了分数，也帮了经理弗格森的大忙。也让曼城的金钱革命一开始就遭遇了挫折。