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
- 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。 - He tried to mollify his father's anger by apologizing.
他企图以认错来减缓他父亲的怒气。 - You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole.
不可能取悦、平息或改造一个混蛋。 - 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 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。 - The current secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, called Turkey's foreign minister, prime minister and president to mollify them.
现任国务卿康多莉扎？赖斯（CondoleezzaRice）拜访了土耳其外长、总理和总统，以安抚他们。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。