acquiesce
acquiesce 英 [ˌækwiˈes] 美 [ˌækwiˈɛs]
vi. 默许；勉强同意
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- To acquiesce is to agree to something or to give in. If your kid sister is refusing to hand over the television remote, you hope she acquiesces before your favorite show comes on.
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- vi. 默许；勉强同意
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1. The American public might acquiesce to climate aid to China if it were sold as a kind of trade stimulus or partnership, however.
不过，如果是以一种贸易刺激或合作的形式，美国公众可能会默许对华气候援助。
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2. And the film does make a plausible case that Bush himself conceived, promoted and justified the war, fought off objections to it and did not simply acquiesce to the arguments of others.
而本片的确提出了似是而非的证据，证明布什本人构思了、推动了并且合理化了这场战争，他力排异议，没有简单地对别人的意见加以默许。
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3. My mother was abducted from the surface in order to love me, but you never acquiesce to demands like that.
我的母亲被从水面上劫持下来照顾我，但是你永远不会默许那种需求。
- acquiesce (v.) 1610s, "remain at rest" (a sense now obsolete); 1650s as "agree tacitly, concur," from Middle French acquiescer "to yield or agree to; be at rest," (14c.), from Latin acquiescere/adquiescere "become quiet, remain at rest, rest, repose," thus "be satisfied with, be content," from ad "to" (see ad-) + quiescere "become quiet," from quies (genitive quietis) "rest, quiet" (from PIE root *kweie- "to rest, be quiet"). Related: Acquiesced; acquiescing.
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