pacify
pacify 英 [ˈpæsɪfaɪ] 美 [ˈpæsəˌfaɪ]
vt. 使平静；安抚，安慰
进行时:pacifying 过去式:pacified 过去分词:pacified 第三人称单数:pacifies 名词复数:pacifies
- If you are bringing peace or calm to a state of unrest, you are pacifying the situation. Just think of the transformation a squalling baby undergoes when a pacifier is placed within his mouth, and you will remember the power of the verb to pacify.
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- vt. 使平静；安抚，安慰
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1. The baby could not be pacified.
婴儿怎么也不能平静下来。
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2. The speech was designed to pacify the irate crowd.
演讲的目的是安抚愤怒的群众。
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3. No words availed to pacify him.
说什么也不能使他平静下来。
- pacify (v.) late 15c., "appease, allay the anger of (someone)," from Middle French pacifier "make peace," from Latin pacificare "to make peace; pacify," from pacificus "peaceful, peace-making," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace). Of countries or regions, "to bring to a condition of calm," c. 1500, from the start with suggestions of submission and terrorization. Related: Pacified; pacifying.
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