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
- 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。 - 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。 - Something that'll mollify the right.
这些话要能安抚一下右翼。 - In an attempt to mollify the NDRC, Mercedes announced large price cuts on more than 10,000 spare parts.
梅赛德斯-奔驰近日宣布大幅下调逾1万种零部件的价格，试图安抚国家发改委。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - She managed to mollify her angry boss.
她顺利平息了她生气的老板。 - 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。