appease

单词appease

基本解释

v.: 安抚；抚慰；绥靖（满足另一国的要求以避免战争）
网络: 平息；缓和；姑息

权威解释

• 安抚；抚慰:

  to make sb calmer or less angry by giving them what they want

• 绥靖（满足另一国的要求以避免战争）:

  to give a country what it wants in order to avoid war

英汉解释

• 和解,(气)消

• 充(饥),果(腹),解(渴),满足(欲望)

• 平息;平静

• 平息(愤怒),缓和(情绪),劝慰,抚慰

• 对…让步,安抚,姑息;绥靖

词性分析

• 过去分词：appeased

• 现在分词：appeasing

• 第三人称单数：appeases

同义词

v.mollifyconciliatepacifyplacatesoothe

反义词

v.provokeintensify

例句

• "We did it just to appease the spirits, " she said. "It"s human nature to be a bit perturbed in the presence of death. "

  “只是为了安抚死者的灵魂，”她说，“在死亡面前感到不安是人之常情。”

• The lesson? It is often easier to appease a foreign government than to fight it in the global commons.

  在全球共同财产中，通常迎合一个外国政府比与之抗争更容易。

• At this point, the main motive is to appease the U. S. " and other trading partners, she said.

  目前，主要的目的是为了安抚美国和其他贸易伙伴。

• In this distress, he began to appease the LORD, his God. He humbled himself abjectly before the God of his fathers.

  默纳舍在这患难中，呼求了上主他的天主，在他祖先的天主前，大发谦卑。

• Outgoing chairman Paul Skinner did not rule out a compromise deal to appease shareholders angry at being shut out from the fundraising.

  卸任主席保罗.斯金纳不排除采取折衷的方法，来平息股东们因被排除在集资行动外而燃起的怒火。

• Movement away from the current peg might be a symbolic gesture to appease the United States without having any material merit.

  脱离当前盯住美元的政策可能是安抚美国的象征性姿态，没有任何实际价值。

• Inadvertently, President Obama has exposed the hypocrisy in world opinion, particularly European opinion, which he was trying to appease.

  不经意中，奥巴马揭露了他尝试去讨好的世界舆论特别是欧洲舆论的伪善。

• He said he could eat an elephant to appease his hunger.

  他说他吃光一头大象才能充饥。

• All day, the government had been flailing around for a response that might appease its angry people.

  整整一天，政府已为应对周围挥舞可能安抚其愤怒的人们。

• Addressing the need to appease markets quickly, Monti said he would name his new cabinet "with urgency. "

  蒙蒂在谈到有必要迅速安抚市场时说，他将很快组建新的内阁。