placate

/plә'keit/

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📖 中文释义

  1. vt. 抚慰, 平息, 使和解, 怀柔

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

现在分词 placating过去分词 placated过去式 placated第三人称单数 placates

💬 双语例句

  1. Meanwhile, the Sino-Russian relationship has achieved an unprecedented degree of warmth. The Chinese are doing almost everything possible to placate Russian concerns.

    与此同时,中俄关系进入了前所未有的紧密期。 中国人几乎在竭尽所能缓解俄罗斯的顾虑。 昔日的边界争端已经平息。 贸易量在快速增长。

  2. The earthquake, together with the media transparency that accompanied it, has made the bureaucrats more accountable. Thousands of people, including nearly 10,000 school children, whose parents will not be easily placated, lost their lives.

  3. The US, and other Western donors, should instead help Egypt to husband its resources, which are often misspent in an effort to placate its people. Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world, and food subsidies account for approximately 2% of GDP.

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🔗 常用搭配

effort to placateplacate its peoplepossible to placate
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of