placate
美 [ˈpleɪkeɪt] 
英 [pləˈkeɪt]
词形变化
第三人称单数：placates 现在分词：placating 过去式：placated 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | ~ sb 安抚；平息（怒气）to make sb feel less angry about sth |
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| The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。 |
英汉解释
v. | 1. 安抚,抚慰;使和解;〈美〉得到(反对党等的)谅解 |
英英解释
例句
Cracking down on women's rights has often been an easy way for governments, secular or not, to placate their more extreme allies or enemies.
无论是世俗还是非世俗政府，都常常把严格限制妇女权益当做安抚极端盟友或劲敌的捷径。
But on the streets of Athens, there is a sense that this latest effort to placate Greece's lenders may be a last straw for the public.
但是，从雅典街头的气氛看来，这个取悦贷款人的最新举措可能会成为压垮公众的最后一根稻草。
In fact Pakistan's new president, Asif Zardari, has been going out of his way-and courting controversy at home-to placate India.
实际上巴基斯坦的新总统扎尔达里已经竭尽所能的与印度达成和解，但此举却在巴国内引发了论战；
Accommodation failed to placate the critics and may have demoralized supporters of a strong defense.
迁就没有能安抚批评者，而可能使强大防务的支持者灰心丧气。
The various accounting bodies are trying to placate the politicians while avoiding watering down standards too much.
各家会计事务所正在一面尽力使政客们安心，同时避免过度降低标准。
But all that failed to placate the crowds, who finally got what they wanted later in the day: a Tunisia sans Ben Ali.
但所有这一切终究没能将人群安抚下来。突尼斯人最终在当天得到了他们想要的结局：赶走本·阿里。
It also foists a stark choice on the Kremlin: to stifle dissent, or to placate protesters to provide some kind of pressure outlet.
它也给克里姆林宫提出了一个艰难的选择：是打击异见人士，还是安抚抗议者、给人们提供一些释放压力的出口。
Being able to placate the surviving population and keep them subservient to a federal system would then involve plenty of handy oil and gas.
要抚慰幸存的公众，让他们服从联邦制度，就得有大量随手可得的石油和汽油。
But even though the military is widely popular with the public, there was no sign that the government shakeup would placate protesters.
但是即使军队很受群众的欢迎，担保没有迹象表明政府会有安抚抗议者的举动，而这些抗议者已经开始举出反对Suleiman的标语。
But the White House sees any conspicuous efforts to placate Jackson as dangerous to its efforts to win back disaffected white moderates.
但是白宫认为任何大张旗鼓安抚杰克逊的举措都不利于挽回那些对政府不满的白人温和派的心。
The talks aren't all about a weakling US trying to placate the powerful landlord from Beijing.
这些对话并不仅仅是一个正在衰落的美国试图安抚来自北京的阔佬。
March 26 - In an attempt to placate protesters, Assad frees 260 prisoners, and 16 more the next day.
三月二十六日-阿萨德释放了260名囚犯，第二天又继续释放了16名，以试图安抚反对者。
The building frenzy aims to placate citizens angry that property speculation has priced them out of the non-subsidized housing market.
大规模兴建保障性住房旨在平息民众的怒火，因为他们对房地产投机行为使其远离商品房市场而感到愤怒。
F. To a greater or lesser extent a mother feels that her own mother demands a baby, so that her baby is produced to placate her mother.
在某种水平上，母亲感觉她本身的母亲需要一个小孩，所以她生孩子只是为了安抚她的母亲。
Bankers are desperately trying to placate their critics.
银行业者正在拼了命地试图安抚批评家们。
In the past, talks with Miss Suu Kyi have been used as a sop to placate international opinion.
过去，与昂山素季进行对话被用于平息国际舆论。
A breakthrough in either area could be enough to placate shareholders and prevent Microsoft returning at a later date .
无论在哪个领域取得突破，可能都足以安抚股东情绪，防止微软日后卷土重来。
Donors need to be patient so charities will not feel pressured to plunge in and offer ineffective aid, simply to placate impatient donors.
捐赠者需要有耐心。这样慈善组织才能从容地工作，不会为了安抚心急的捐赠者匆忙投入人力物力却事与愿违。
To placate Italy's irate local mayors and governors, Mr Berlusconi lightened the burden of savings they were supposed to have made.
为了安抚意大利愤怒的地方官员，贝卢斯科尼（Berlusconi）减轻了地方官员需要制定的节省负担。
The White House must placate investors nervous about deficit spending with the political imperative of getting the jobless rate down.
白宫必须表露出降低失业率的急迫政治责任感，来安抚投资者对赤字支出的忧虑。
Now Mr Tsang will have to come up with an electoral plan for the coming years that will placate public impatience but not alarm China.
现在曾先生不得不为正在到来的几年提出一个选举计划，该计划既能缓和公众的急躁情绪又能不使中国感到恐慌。
Do not imagine you can placate them by showering "development" and "reconstruction" on them in the postwar era.
不要幻想着你可以给与大量的“发展”和“重建”来安抚这些民众。
the Arabs hoped it would be enough to placate them.
伊拉克阿拉伯人希望这对于安抚库尔德人是足够的。
The move wasn't enough to placate protesters, however, who have consistently demanded that he step down immediately.
不过，此举不足以平息抗议者的愤怒，他们一直要求穆巴拉克立即下台。
This should go some way to placate hawkish ECB members who disagree with the Bank's bond-buying programme.
这必将一定程度抚慰欧洲央行执委会中反对债券购买计划的强硬派人士。
That was not enough to placate Britain's politicians, though, some of whom accused the Murdochs of willful ignorance.
但是这还不够平息英国政客的怒气，他们有些人指控梅铎刻意无知。
Officials asked fans to remove the offending garments, to placate Budweiser, a rival beer brand that was the tournament's official sponsor.
而官方为了安抚百威啤酒（那届世界杯的官方赞助商），要求球迷脱掉这些“违反规定”的衣服。
Hollows , in their attempt to bury their lost of life (heart? ) and to placate their thirst for souls will attack humans to eat the souls.
虚为了设法埋葬它们失去的生命（心？）和满足自己对魂魄的欲望，就会攻击人类吞噬其魂魄。
He also tried to placate some of the non-Brics by offering a new term: the "N-11" , or Next Eleven nations on the list to emerge as powers.
他还提出一个新词来安抚一些非金砖四国国家，这个词就是“N-11”，即接下来将成为强国的11个国家。
Because, Mrs Merkel told her colleagues, she had to placate the judges in Karlsruhe.
因为默克尔告诉其他领导人们，她必须让德国宪法法院的法官们息怒。
A suspension may not placate the vociferous opposition parties, which have said they want a full rollback of the retail decision.
搁置改革可能还是无法安抚吵吵嚷嚷的反对党，因为他们曾说，希望政府全面取消零售行业的改革决定。
Londoners deserve their sleep, but it should be possible to placate them by reducing early morning flights.
伦敦人值得拥有好睡眠，但第三跑道的建设也是可行的，只要减少早班航班就可以安慰当地居民。
In any case, China may end up using more of its reserve funds to address domestic problems or placate domestic interest groups.
不论结果如何，中国最终可能需要动用更多的储备资金去解决其国内问题，或安抚国内利益集团。
Beijing did raise prices twice in two months this summer to placate firms sliding into the red.
中国此前已在两个月内两次上调电价，以缓解企业亏损情况。
Todd: Of course, one can placate the people with bread and money, but only for a while.
托德：当然，你可以用面包和财富平息民众，但那只是暂时的。
Rather than provoking China by arming Taiwan and patrolling the seas, it would be better to placate it, and throw it the morsel of Taiwan.
与其通过继续对台军售、巡视台湾海峡来惹怒中国，不如安抚中国，将台湾这个微不足道的小问题抛诸脑后。
They may buy unwanted housing off developers, which would placate their overseers in Beijing but add nothing to China's GDP.
他们可能会从开发商手中买下根本不需要的房子，这只是为了迎合上级的要求，但是不会给中国的GDP带来任何改变。
He knew he needed to placate this important group of stockholders, who along with directors owned about 30% of the firm.
他们和董事们一共拥有大约30%的公司股权，他知道必须稳住这批股东。
Seeking to placate the domestic critics, China's leaders are hardening their stance toward the Americans.
中国领导人寻求安抚国内的批评之声，对美国姿态变得强硬。
Silvio Berlusconi's government cobbled together an emergency austerity package for Italy late on Friday to placate the bond markets.
的政府周五晚上匆匆制作了一个应急紧缩计划，安抚债券市场。
