placate是什么意思？

placate

英[pləˈkeɪt] 美[ˈpleɪkeɪt]

• vt. 安抚，抚慰，使平静，使和解，平息；

第三人称单数：placates;

过去式：placated;

过去分词：placated;

现在分词：placating;

例句

• Even a written apology failed to placate the indignant hostess. 甚至一纸书面道歉都没能安抚这个怒气冲冲的女主人。
• He smiled, trying to placate me. 他微笑着，想要安抚我。
• He never attempts to placate his enemy. 他从不企图与敌人和解.
• The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
• He smiled, trying to placate me... 他微笑着，想要安抚我。
• ...a major new initiative to placate the country's restless intellectuals. 安抚国家不安分的知识分子的重大新举措

反义词

• vt.
  placate的反义词之：抚慰;和解;怀柔
  enrage,
• placate的反义词之：其他释义
  enrage,

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  安抚；抚慰
  If you placate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry.
  例句
  He smiled, trying to placate me... 他微笑着，想要安抚我。 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice. 阿格纽用抚慰的语气说：“我不是有意让你不高兴。”

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  安抚,抚慰,使平静
  He never attempts to placate his enemy. 他从不企图与敌人和解。 Even a written apology failed to placate the indignant hostess. 甚至一纸书面道歉都没能安抚这个怒气冲冲的女主人。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
  "She managed to mollify the angry customer"