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placate v.抚慰；平息；和解 (1) 他的目的显然不是要安抚批评他的人。(2) 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。 If your little sister is mad that the dog ate her favorite teddy bear, you could placate her by buying her an ice cream cone. A near synonym for placate is appease. The origin of placate is Latin placare "to calm or soothe." The related Latin verb placere is the source of English please.

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英 [plə'keɪt] 美 ['pleɪkeɪt] (1) His intent is clearly not to placate his critics.(2) The concessions did little to placate the students. When a husband shows up with flowers after he's fought with his wife, he's trying to placate her. If you placate someone, you stop them from being angry by giving them something or doing something that pleases them. 1[VERB 动词]安抚；抚慰 If you placate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry.   [V n]  [V-ing]  [Also V]  [FORMAL 正式]He smiled, trying to placate me...他微笑着，想要安抚我。'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice.阿格纽用抚慰的语气说：“我不是有意让你不高兴。”

英语单词	placate
英美音标	英 [plə'keɪt] 美 ['pleɪkeɪt]
中文释义	v.抚慰；平息；和解
英语例句	(1) His intent is clearly not to placate his critics. (2) The concessions did little to placate the students.
中文例句	(1) 他的目的显然不是要安抚批评他的人。 (2) 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
vocabulary简明	When a husband shows up with flowers after he's fought with his wife, he's trying to placate her. If you placate someone, you stop them from being angry by giving them something or doing something that pleases them.
vocabulary扩展	If your little sister is mad that the dog ate her favorite teddy bear, you could placate her by buying her an ice cream cone. A near synonym for placate is appease. The origin of placate is Latin placare "to calm or soothe." The related Latin verb placere is the source of English please.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]安抚；抚慰 If you placate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry. [V n] [V-ing] [Also V] [FORMAL 正式] He smiled, trying to placate me... 他微笑着，想要安抚我。 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice. 阿格纽用抚慰的语气说：“我不是有意让你不高兴。”

Placate Stop Latin 英 Plə'Keɪt] 美 Pleɪkeɪt V.抚慰；平息；和解 Intent