| 单词 | pacify |
| 释义 | pac·i·fy 1. a. < bought the weeping child a lollipop to pacify her > b. < such concessions would pacify the Chinese Communist leaders — W.V.Shannon > 2. a. < throws the four of them … into a violent emotional upheaval not to be pacified until one of them dies — Charles Lee > b. < U.S. Marines … went in as early as 1910 to pacify the country — Time > Synonyms: < seeing his mounting rage, friends did all they could to pacify and restrain him > < second-grade troops, useful mainly to occupy parts of the country that have already been pacified — Brian Crozier > appease may indicate the quieting of agitation or insistent demand by the making of concessions < open in manner, easy of access, a little quick of temper but readily appeased — John Buchan > < he is utterly and absolutely implacable; no prayers, no human sacrifices can ever for one moment appease his cold, malignant rage — L.P.Smith > < a frantic effort to appease mounting discontent at home — Paul Willen > placate is sometimes interchangeable with appease but may imply a more lasting assuagement of bitter feeling < each and every new route projected was liable to drastic alteration to placate local opposition — O.S.Nock > < federal officials who try to placate witch-hunting Congressmen — New Republic > mollify stresses softening or abatement of agitation, through mitigating circumstance < mollified when they heard that the patio, with its famous cottonwood tree, will be left intact — Green Peyton > propitiate may refer to averting the anger or malevolence or winning the favor of a superior or of one possessing the power to injure greatly < propitiate this far-shooting Apollo — George Grote > < Aunty Rosa, he argued, had the power to beat him with many stripes … it would be discreet in the future to propitiate Aunty Rosa — Rudyard Kipling > < the unlimited power of trustees to abuse their trust unless they are abjectly propitiated — H.G.Wells > conciliate may be used of situations in which an estrangement or dispute is settled by arbitration or compromise < policy of conciliating and amalgamating conquered nations — Agnes Repplier > < instinctively friendly and wholly free from inflammatory rhetoric, he did much to conciliate more stubborn Northern sentiment concerning the South — F.P.Gaines > |
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