pacify
英 ['pæsɪfaɪ]
美['pæsə'fai]
- vt. 使平静；安慰；平定
词态变化
第三人称单数: pacifies;过去式: pacified;过去分词: pacified;现在分词: pacifying;名词: pacification;
中文词源
pacify 平息，安抚
来自peace,和平，平和，-fy,使。即使平和，引申词义平息，安抚。
英英释意
- 1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
- "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
- 2. fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location);
- "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"
英文词源
- pacify
- pacify: see peace
- pacify (v.)
- late 15c., "appease, allay the anger of (someone)," from Middle French pacifier "make peace," from Latin pacificare "to make peace; pacify," from pacificus (see pacific). Of countries or regions, "to bring to a condition of calm," c. 1500, from the start with suggestions of submission and terrorization. Related: Pacified; pacifying.
实用场景例句
- The baby could not be pacified.
- 怎么也止不住婴儿的哭声。
牛津词典
- The speech was designed to pacify the irate crowd.
- 讲话的目的是安抚愤怒的群众。
牛津词典
- 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？
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
- 她又尖叫了，无法使她平静下来。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
- 政府军发现难以平定叛军。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
- 当地警察最终把他们镇压了下去。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He tried to pacify his creditors by repaying part of the money.
- 他为安抚债权人偿还了部分借款.
辞典例句
- Defying his generals , Mr Rumsfeld sent too few troops to Iraq to pacify the country.
- 全然不顾下属的意见和建议, 拉姆斯菲尔德派遣为数不多的兵力去平定伊拉克.
期刊摘选
- You see we were quite right to pacify that country.
- 你瞧,我们平定那个国家是很对的.
辞典例句
- That should pacify her.
- 那会使她平息下来的.
期刊摘选
- The U . N . troops are working to pacify Bosnia.
- 联合部队正在为波斯尼亚的和平而努力.
期刊摘选
- The secession demand is rejected and the Colonial Command moves in to pacify the resistance.
- 脱离要求被否决,殖民地压制武装被派出铲除叛乱.
期刊摘选
- More troops were sent to pacify the area.
- 又有部队派去平息那一地区的骚乱.
辞典例句
- He tried to pacify the mob.
- 他试图安抚暴民.
《简明英汉词典》
- How do we pacify and comfort them?
- 才能够让婴灵安心?
期刊摘选
- The main products pacifier pacify, pacifiers and other animals.
- 主要产品为安抚奶嘴, 动物奶嘴等.
期刊摘选
- No words availed to pacify him.
- 说什么也不能使他平静下来.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- You pacify me I keep a stiff upper lip, the approval of an injection.
- 你安抚我后我才咬紧牙关, 批准打针.
期刊摘选
- He tried to pacify the protesters with promises of reform.
- 他试图以改革的承诺安抚抗议者.
辞典例句
- She knew that he had become delirious, and tried to pacify him.
- 她知道他已经神志昏迷起来了, 极力想使他镇静下来.
辞典例句
- In spite of my efforts to pacify it the baby continued to cry / continued crying.
- 尽管我已尽力哄这婴儿,可是他还是哭个不停.
辞典例句
- Pacify possibly to know Tom's address.
- 安可能知道汤姆地址.
辞典例句
- It has been used to pacify people suffering from mental disorders.
- 它一直被用作安抚精神失调病人的情绪.
期刊摘选
- The prince regent tried his best to pacify the situation quietly.
- 摄政王采取一切办法阴骘局势.
期刊摘选
- Also notice that how the mind is unable to pacify itself.
- 也注意到内心在安慰上的无能为力.
期刊摘选
- Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.
- 牙医批评的做法,让挑剔的儿童糖果安抚他们.
期刊摘选
- To pacify the baby.
- 安抚宝宝情绪.
期刊摘选
- He speaks to pacify that the best to hurrying up.
- 他说安最好快一点.
辞典例句