pacify

英 [ˈpæsɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈpæsɪfaɪ]

v.  使平静; 平息; 抚慰; 平息战争; 使实现和平

过去分词：pacified　现在分词：pacifying　过去式：pacified　第三人称单数：pacifies　

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Collins.1 / BNC.19225 / COCA.18896

牛津词典

verb

• 使平静；平息；抚慰
  to make sb who is angry or upset become calm and quiet
  1. The baby could not be pacified.
     怎么也止不住婴儿的哭声。
  2. The speech was designed to pacify the irate crowd.
     讲话的目的是安抚愤怒的群众。
• 平息战争；使实现和平
  to bring peace to an area where there is fighting or a war

柯林斯词典

• VERB 安抚；抚慰；使平静
  If youpacifysomeone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased.
  1. Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?...
     这一措施是来真的？还是仅仅为了安抚批评人士？
  2. She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
     她又尖叫了，无法使她平静下来。
• VERB 平定；平息；镇压
  If the army or the policepacifya group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests.
  1. Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
     政府军发现难以平定叛军。
  2. They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
     当地警察最终把他们镇压了下去。

英英释义

verb

• fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)
  1. The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia
• cause to be more favorably inclined
  1. She managed to mollify the angry customer
  Synonym:lenifyconciliateassuageappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle

双语例句

• Like an infant learning how to pacify himself, you should learn to give yourself credit instead of looking to others to give you the confidence, the self-esteem, the self-respect, Klaus says.
  克劳斯说：就像婴儿学习如何让自己平静下来，人们应当学会如何相信自己，而不是等他人给你信心和自尊。
• Whoever feels sorry should do more to pacify those he's saying sorry to.
  不论谁感到应该说抱歉的时候就应该做更多的事来抚慰接受抱歉的人或事。
• Dig into one's savings to pay debts He tried to pacify his creditors by repaying part of the money.
  动用一大部分存款来还债他为安抚债权人偿还了部分借款。
• Pacify possibly to know Tom's address.
  安可能知道汤姆地址。
• However, the notion that gamers acquire some minor physical skills may not pacify concerned parents.
  不过在知道了游戏玩家们能够改善一些运动技能之后，父母们的担心并没有减少。
• Now, this decline is still far too small to pacify critics.
  就目前而言，这样的降幅还过于微小，不足以平息批评意见。
• Yeltsin said that a better solution than the use of violence is to pacify the situation and to achieve an agreement through diplomatic approaches.
  叶利钦说，比使用暴力更好的办法是缓和局势和通过外交途径取得一致。
• To soothe, as by stroking; pacify.
  安抚，使温和：受打击时安慰；使平静。
• Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels
  政府军发现难以平定叛军。
• She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
  她又尖叫了，无法使她平静下来。