appeasement

英 [əˈpiːzmənt]

美 [əˈpiːzmənt]

n.  平息;安抚;绥靖

法律

BNC.22066 / COCA.19362

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 平息;安抚;绥靖
  Appeasementmeans giving people what they want to prevent them from harming you or being angry with you.
  1. He denied there is a policy of appeasement...
     他否认有绥靖政策存在。
  2. They have already been accused of appeasement by more militant organisations.
     已有更多的好战组织谴责他们采取姑息态度。

英英释义

noun

• the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
  Synonym:calming

双语例句

• In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth.
  在这个世纪里，当邪恶的人们密谋化学、生物和核恐怖的时候，绥靖政策会招致地球上从未有过的大毁灭。
• The British and French premiers, once they had abandoned appeasement, appealed to the Kremlin to sign an alliance to contain Nazism.
  英法政府首脑一旦抛弃绥靖政策，就呼吁克里姆林宫签订盟约，以遏制纳粹主义。
• Moscow hopes that Europe will eventually have to agree to appeasement and remove the sanctions.
  莫斯科希望，欧洲将最终不得不同意实施绥靖政策，并取消制裁。
• Yet no word captures the general mood of Europe better than appeasement.
  然而，没有什么词比绥靖更能体现欧洲当前的普遍心态。
• "The United States, Britain and Appeasement 1936-1939"
  美国、英国与绥靖1936-1939
• His newspapers were peddling the twin policies of appeasement and optimism.
  他的报纸在竭力兜售姑息与乐观的双重政策。
• This is protectionism without the protection. Pure appeasement Politics: calculated and cynical.
  这是毫无保护作用的保护主义，是纯粹的绥靖政治：精心设计且犬儒主义。
• Such deals have been condemned as appeasement by critics in Washington and Seoul.
  美国和韩国的批评人士谴责这种交易是绥靖政策。
• The proposition is that the world's superpower has a binary choice between aggression and appeasement in the conduct of foreign policy.
  人们的看法是，作为世界超级大国，美国在外交政策上有两种选择：或者咄咄逼人，或者息事宁人。
• It would allow the sharp-witted time to choose appeasement, defence or possibly even pre-emptive attack.
  这可以使他最紧急的时刻选择冷静下来，防守或甚至先发制人。