mollify
mollify 英 [ˈmɒlɪfaɪ] 美 [ˈmɑlɪfaɪ]
vt. 平息，缓和；使…平静；使…变软
进行时:mollifying 过去式:mollified 过去分词:mollified 第三人称单数:mollifies
- To mollify is to calm someone down, talk them off the ledge, make amends, maybe even apologize.
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- vt. 平息，缓和；使…平静；使…变软
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1. The company has made tweaks to its search engine to mollify rivals and head off a possible legal clash with antitrust authorities.
公司开始调整其搜索引擎来平息竞争者的不满，并尽可能避免和反垄断组织的法律冲突。
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2. So far, Beijing has used its clout as a major foreign investor and the world’s biggest importer of raw materials to mollify or intimidate its potential critics.
到目前为止，北京利用其作为主要外国投资者和世界最大的原材料进口国的影响力来安抚或恐吓其潜在的批评方。
- mollify (v.) late 14c., "to soften (a substance)," from Old French mollifier or directly from Late Latin mollificare "make soft, mollify" from mollificus "softening," from Latin mollis "soft" (from PIE root *mel- (1) "soft") + combining form of facere "to make, to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Transferred sense of "soften in temper, appease, pacify" is recorded from early 15c. Related: Mollified; mollifying.
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