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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - When Cathrine took him at his word, and consented to renounce the attempt to mollify her father, he drew back skillfully enough.
当凯瑟琳听从他的话答应放弃抚慰父亲的努力时,他巧妙地退却了。 - You won't be able to mollify her with flowers.
你无法用鲜花来抚慰她。 - To answer it with perfect storms and an Alzheimer's fun run might mollify some, but if I were an investor I would be not merely tearful, but quite put out, too.
用完美风暴和老年痴呆症的笑话可能会安抚部分投资者,但换了我,将不仅仅会流泪,还会撤资。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。