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
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.- 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。
- The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.
英英释义
verb
- make less rigid or softer
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- she tempered her criticism
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
双语例句
- Hard discipline may be needed to preserve the euro, and to mollify German voters who do not want to bankroll irresponsible neighbours.
强硬的规则是必要的，可以保护欧元，也可以安抚不愿再为不负责任的邻国掏腰包的德国选民。 - The Save Disney campaign, however, warned that those promises would not be enough to mollify investors.
不过，“拯救迪斯尼”运动的人士警告说，那些承诺不足以安抚投资者。 - 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。 - She managed to mollify her angry boss.
她顺利平息了她生气的老板。 - To mollify Mr Wynn and Mr Ho, both were allowed to sell one sub-concession apiece.
为了安抚韦恩和何鸿燊，他们各自获准出售一张次级经营权牌照。 - You won't be able to mollify her with flowers.
你无法用鲜花来抚慰她。 - The President's comments, however did little to mollify the project's opponents.
总统的这番话并没有平息反对这个计划的人的愤怒。 - But Samsung's rapid response to the indictment fit a pattern for the way it has coped with other high-profile legal difficulties in recent years: by quickly taking big steps to mollify public anger.
但是三星集团对赵俊雄的声明迅速做出的反应倒是和它一贯作风相符，近年来该公司在卷入闹得沸沸扬扬的法律纠纷时总能在第一时间出手、平息众怒。 - 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 it has placed conditions on its future membership of the bank in an attempt to mollify concerns expressed by its main military ally, the US.
但澳大利亚对其在亚投行的未来成员身份设定了条件，以安抚主要军事盟友美国所表达的关切。