placate

verb

1. 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。

1. VERB 安抚；抚慰
   If you placate someone, 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。”

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。”
3. 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。
4. 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。
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. China, however, appears to have outsmarted its rivals in recent months by taking steps – some symbolic and some real – to placate its African critics.
   然而，中国似乎巧妙地胜过了对手们，在近几个月里采取一些措施有些是象征性的，也有些是实质性的以安抚非洲的批评人士。
7. 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。
8. Now Mr Tsang will have to come up with an electoral plan for the coming years that will placate public impatience but not alarm China.
   现在摆在曾先生面前的问题是如何制定来年的选举计划既能安抚民众的急躁情绪但又不会让中央不高兴。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. He never attempt to placate his enemy.
    他从不企图与敌人和解。
12. A breakthrough in either area could be enough to placate shareholders and prevent Microsoft returning at a later date.
    无论在哪个领域取得突破，可能都足以安抚股东情绪，防止微软日后卷土重来。
13. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
    服装和面具也穿在节日，企图模仿邪灵或安抚他们。
14. 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。
15. Lenders may be harder to placate than diplomats.
    放贷者可能会比外交家更难安抚。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. He hoped really to placate Butler in part by generous attitude throughout this procedure.
    他实在希望通过这件事以他大方的态度使巴特勒缓和一些。
25. 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。
26. 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%。
27. The desire of politicians to placate the public.
    政治家们想要安抚公众的愿望。
28. You had better placate your parent's angry.
    你最好安抚你家人的怒气。
29. 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。

verb

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

   Synonym:    pacifylenifyconciliateassuageappeasemollifygentlegruntle