英:[pləˈkeɪt]
美:[ˈpleɪkeɪt]
英:[pləˈkeɪt]
美:[ˈpleɪkeɪt]
pla·cate
pleI keIt [or] plae keIt
第三人称单数:placates
现在分词:placating
过去式:placated
过去分词:placated
placater (n.), placation (n.)
词根:placate
adj.placable 易抚慰的;易和解的;温和的
placatory 抚慰的;怀柔的;调解的
n.placation 安抚
transitive verb
to calm down and make less angry, esp. by appeasement; conciliate; pacify.The company executives tried to placate the protesters by agreeing to make minor changes in their policies.He hoped to placate his girlfriend with a bouquet a roses.
"安抚或平息",1670年代,是从 placation 反推而来,或者来自拉丁语 placatus “安抚,平静,温和,平静,和平”的过去分词,是 placare “平静,安抚,安静,安抚,缓和”的使役形式, placere “取悦”(见 please)。相关词汇: Placated; placating; placatingly。
Latin placatus, past participle of placare — more at please
The first known use of placate was in 1678
placateverb
to calm the anger or bitterness of
1 Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
服装和面具也穿在节日,企图模仿邪灵或安抚他们。
2 Driven more by a need to placate than explore, the second season devolved into a much more standard, though still well-written and hypnotically performed police drama.
3 Not that this would placate the conservatives demanding that ancient mythology be given a spot on a science education program.
4 His foster mother at the time had tried to placate him with candy from the vending machine, but he had just cried under the table until she dragged him out and they went home.
5 You might add too much weight to the bench press or strain yourself during a yoga pose, just to placate your inner critic.
你给自己在举重练习登上增加了过大的重量或者太过严格要求自身的瑜伽动作,放下你内心的一些批判吧。
6 “It’s not the job of films to placate you. Films can talk about things that are uncomfortable.”
7 This isn't the family dynamic that I want: angry dad, placating/nagging mom.
8 A number of these stories are old: one involves his youthful travels on a slightly forged Eurail pass, at a time when a suspicious train conductor could be placated with a tape of the Doors.
9 “The empire had collapsed. The whole business of trying to placate the former colonial people — my art suddenly served that purpose,” said Bowling.
10 Gucci quickly said that the piece was a riff on Mr. Day’s, and few of the critics were placated.
11 Harvey's previous recordings, as lead singer of indie rockers the Music, were divisive in their day, and he hasn't set about trying to placate his critics.
12 We have a magnetic leader, one who lies continually and remorselessly—not pathologically but strategically, to placate his opponents, to inflame the furies of his core constituency, and to foment chaos.
13 Blankfein was clearly trying to placate the locals and show some kind of contrition.
布兰克费恩显然在尽力抚慰德国人,并表现出一定的悔悟.
14 It was up to Mr. Connell to stop the show, placate the audience and, after the fallen soldier proved unhurt, resume the blizzard.
15 In your fear you will try to escape it, to fight it, to protect yourselves from it, to placate it.
出于恐惧,你们会设法逃跑,与之搏斗,保护你们自己,去安抚老虎。
16 Robertson ducked out of the bathroom to placate the Beatles—“Bob’s just freshening up”—and returned to find that Dylan had slipped, for a moment, beneath the water.
17 And each uses language to divergent ends — to wound or to placate, to unveil the truth or obscure it.
18 “Maybe it’s different if you’re someone who wants to placate the show and be popular and be loved,” she said.
19 That was not enough to placate Britain's politicians, though, some of whom accused the Murdochs of willful ignorance.
但是这还不够平息英国政客的怒气,他们有些人指控梅铎刻意无知。
20 Watch for China to increase its capital flows to the emerging markets to placate critics.
让我们等待中国增加对新兴市场的资金流动,以安抚批评者吧.
2 使息怒
4 平息
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6 安抚
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7 抚慰
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8 安慰
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9 和解
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10 息怒