mollify

英 [ˈmɒlɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈmɑːlɪfaɪ]

v.  使平静; 抚慰

过去分词：mollified　过去式：mollified　现在分词：mollifying　第三人称单数：mollifies　

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BNC.21154 / COCA.21490

牛津词典

verb

• 使平静；抚慰
  to make sb feel less angry or upset

柯林斯词典

• VERB 抚慰;安抚
  If youmollifysomeone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry.
  1. The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.
     展开调查主要是为了安抚那些压力集团。

英英释义

verb

• make less rigid or softer
• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
  1. she tempered her criticism
  Synonym:temperseason
• cause to be more favorably inclined
  1. She managed to mollify the angry customer
  Synonym:pacifylenifyconciliateassuageappeaseplacategentlegruntle

双语例句

• Something that'll mollify the right.
  这些话要能安抚一下右翼。
• His explanation failed to mollify her.
  他的解释未能消解她的怒气。
• When Cathrine took him at his word, and consented to renounce the attempt to mollify her father, he drew back skillfully enough.
  当凯瑟琳听从他的话答应放弃抚慰父亲的努力时，他巧妙地退却了。
• You won't be able to mollify her with flowers.
  你无法用鲜花来抚慰她。
• He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning.
  他害怕这个不祥的预兆，想方设法把它从脑子里撵出去，平息它，消除它&但是它总是返回来。
• But this has done little to mollify Beijing, which has portrayed the prize as a western plot to undermine China.
  但这无助于安抚北京方面，北京将该奖描述为西方破坏中国的一个阴谋。
• A shorter working week has been proposed to mollify the effects of the new working arrangements.
  一个较短的上作周被建议用来缓和新的工作安排的影响。
• The author think that the international point about RMB currency value under-estimating mainly base on the political reasons rather than the economic reason, hence I feel that we need mollify the current pressure from both short-time and long-time.
  本人认为目前国际上有关人民币币值低估的观点主要基于政治原因而非经济原因，于是为了缓和目前人民币升值的压力需要从短期与长期两方面着手，由表及里地化解国际上要求人民币升值的压力。
• Jack claimed that he could mollify the mayor's wife.
  杰克宣称他不能让市长夫人平静过下来。
• No matter which it is mollify of music all can encouragement you.
  不论哪一种缓和的音乐都可以鼓励你。