placate
placate 英 [pləˈkeɪt] 美 [ˈpleɪkeɪt]
vt. 抚慰；怀柔；使和解
进行时:placating 过去式:placated 过去分词:placated 第三人称单数:placates 名词复数:placates
- When a husband shows up with flowers after he's fought with his wife, he's trying to placate her. If you placate someone, you stop them from being angry by giving them something or doing something that pleases them.
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- vt. 抚慰；怀柔；使和解
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1. I tried to placate her by offering to pay for the repairs.
我提出支付修理费来抚慰他。
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2. The minister's cronies have an election coming up, and the best way to placate voters is to promise them land.
部长的密友马上要参加大选了，抚慰选民最好的方法就是向他们保证可以得到土地。
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3. But even though the military is widely popular with the public, there was no sign that the government shakeup would placate protesters, who added anti-Suleiman slogans to their demands.
尽管军队在公众中大受欢迎，然而并没有迹象表明政府的调整能够抚慰已经将反对苏雷曼的口号加入他们要求中的抗议者。
- placate (v.) 1670s, a back-formation from placation or else from Latin placatus "soothed, quiet, gentle, calm, peaceful," past participle of placare "to calm, appease, quiet, soothe, assuage," causative of placere "to please" (see please). Related: Placated; placating; placatingly.
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