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  • 柯林斯词典释义
  • 英英词典释义
例句
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。”
英英词典释义
  • Adjective
    1. tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions;
    "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich""placating (or placative) gestures""an astonishingly placatory speech"