| 英语单词 | appease |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ə'piːz] 美 [ə'piːz] |
| 中文释义 | v.安抚;缓和;平息;姑息 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler at Munich. (2) His attempts to appease her only added fuel to the fire. (3) State governments are left scrabbling to appease ruraldisgruntlement rather than investing in efforts to lift theproductivity of land and labour. (4) Many in the New Republic began to turn against the Jedi in an effort to appease the Yuuzhan Vong and blunt their destructive incursions. (5) It is a blunder for them to try to appease the aggressor. (6) State-run media in Egypt said Mr. Bush aims to do nothing but appease Israel. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 张伯伦在慕尼黑尽量安抚希特勒。 (2) 他试着安抚她,结果却造成火上加油的局面。 (3) 政府花钱努力来提高农民和工人的生产力还不如想办法缓和农民的不满。 (4) 新共和国的许多人开始反对绝地,他们对遇战疯人实施绥靖政策,试图以此缓和遇战疯人毁灭性的入侵行动。 (5) 他们想姑息侵略者,那是一个大错。 (6) 埃及官方媒体说,除了姑息以色列外,布什没有其他目的。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Appease means to make or preserve peace with a nation, group, or person by giving in to their demands, or to relieve a problem, as in "the cold drink appeased his thirst." |
| vocabulary扩展 | Appease often implies abandoning your moral principles to satisfy the demands of someone who is greedy for power: think of British Prime Minister Chamberlain's attempt to appease the Nazis at Munich. The verb appease comes from the Old French apaisier, "to pacify, make peace, or be reconciled," from the phrase "a paisier," which combines a-, or "to," and pais, "peace," from the Latin pax. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]平息;安抚;抚慰 If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want. [V n] [disapproval]
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