mollify

verb

1. 使平静；抚慰
   to make sb feel less angry or upset

1. VERB 抚慰;安抚
   If you mollify someone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry.
   1. 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。

1. 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。
2. Say something to mollify his anger.
   你去解劝几句，叫他别生气了。
3. But it has placed conditions on its future membership of the bank in an attempt to mollify concerns expressed by its main military ally, the US.
   但澳大利亚对其在亚投行的未来成员身份设定了条件，以安抚主要军事盟友美国所表达的关切。
4. In an attempt to mollify the NDRC, Mercedes announced large price cuts on more than 10,000 spare parts.
   梅赛德斯-奔驰近日宣布大幅下调逾1万种零部件的价格，试图安抚国家发改委。
5. You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole.
   不可能取悦、平息或改造一个混蛋。
6. 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。
7. The President's comments, however did little to mollify the project's opponents.
   总统的这番话并没有平息反对这个计划的人的愤怒。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. You won't be able to mollify her with flowers.
    你无法用鲜花来抚慰她。
12. 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。
13. He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning.
    他害怕这个不祥的预兆，想方设法把它从脑子里撵出去，平息它，消除它&但是它总是返回来。
14. To mollify Mr Wynn and Mr Ho, both were allowed to sell one sub-concession apiece.
    为了安抚韦恩和何鸿燊，他们各自获准出售一张次级经营权牌照。
15. 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。
16. She managed to mollify her angry boss.
    她顺利平息了她生气的老板。
17. His explanation failed to mollify her.
    他的解释未能消解她的怒气。
18. Jack claimed that he could mollify the mayor's wife.
    杰克宣称他不能让市长夫人平静过下来。
19. The Save Disney campaign, however, warned that those promises would not be enough to mollify investors.
    不过，“拯救迪斯尼”运动的人士警告说，那些承诺不足以安抚投资者。
20. 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。
21. Hard discipline may be needed to preserve the euro, and to mollify German voters who do not want to bankroll irresponsible neighbours.
    强硬的规则是必要的，可以保护欧元，也可以安抚不愿再为不负责任的邻国掏腰包的德国选民。
22. Something that'll mollify the right.
    这些话要能安抚一下右翼。
23. 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。
24. The author think that the international point about RMB currency value under-estimating mainly base on the political reasons rather than the economic reason, hence I feel that we need mollify the current pressure from both short-time and long-time.
    本人认为目前国际上有关人民币币值低估的观点主要基于政治原因而非经济原因，于是为了缓和目前人民币升值的压力需要从短期与长期两方面着手，由表及里地化解国际上要求人民币升值的压力。

verb

1. make less rigid or softer

2. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
   1. she tempered her criticism

   Synonym:    temperseason

3. cause to be more favorably inclined
   1. She managed to mollify the angry customer

   Synonym:    pacifylenifyconciliateassuageappeaseplacategentlegruntle