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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But it has placed conditions on its future membership of the bank in an attempt to mollify concerns expressed by its main military ally, the US.
但澳大利亚对其在亚投行的未来成员身份设定了条件，以安抚主要军事盟友美国所表达的关切。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You won't be able to mollify her with flowers.
你无法用鲜花来抚慰她。 - Something that'll mollify the right.
这些话要能安抚一下右翼。