单词 | appease |
释义 | ap·pease /əˈpiːz/ verb [transitive] formal PPANGRYto make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want 平息;安抚,抚慰 They attempted to appease international opposition by promising to hold talks. 他们答应举行会谈,试图以此平息国际上的反对声音。 —appeasement noun [countable, uncountable] Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement towards Hitler in the 30s 30年代张伯伦对希特拉的绥靖政策→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusappease• But Stan was oddly unwilling to be appeased.• Of a burning hunger that only she could appease.• They had no public opinion to appease.• Too often New Labour appeases and buys off opposing forces: this third-way strategy makes few friends or permanent changes.• A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.• Human rights activists accuse the United Nations of appeasing the militia.• This was a clever attempt to appease the people, but it backfired.• Chacon maintains that lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to appease the public amid growing hysteria, pinned the murders on Sharif.Origin appease (1300-1400) Old French apaisier, from pais “peace”ap·pease verbChineseSyllable make Corpus stop less someone to them or angry from |
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