appease

美音：[ə'piz] 英音：[ə'piːz]

简单释义：

v.安抚；抚慰；绥靖（满足另一国的要求以避免战争）

网络平息；缓和；姑息

变形：

过去分词：appeased 现在分词：appeasing 第三人称单数：appeases

完整释义：

1.对…让步,安抚,姑息;绥靖
2.平息(愤怒),缓和(情绪),劝慰,抚慰
3.平息;平静
4.充(饥),果(腹),解(渴),满足(欲望)
5.和解,(气)消

例句：

Others see it as a one-off PR stunt to appease the Syrian youth, and evidence that only superficial change is to come.
另一派则认为这只是安抚叙利亚年轻人的公关技俩，政府显然是在做表面工作。
Movement away from the current peg might be a symbolic gesture to appease the United States without having any material merit.
脱离当前盯住美元的政策可能是安抚美国的象征性姿态，没有任何实际价值。
The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease the critics of the regime.
这一举措被广泛视为是企图对政权批评者们进行的安抚。
In this distress, he began to appease the LORD, his God. He humbled himself abjectly before the God of his fathers.
默纳舍在这患难中，呼求了上主他的天主，在他祖先的天主前，大发谦卑。
"We did it just to appease the spirits, " she said. "It's human nature to be a bit perturbed in the presence of death. "
“只是为了安抚死者的灵魂，”她说，“在死亡面前感到不安是人之常情。”
All day, the government had been flailing around for a response that might appease its angry people.
整整一天，政府已为应对周围挥舞可能安抚其愤怒的人们。
This was money used to appease a cold war ally long after it became clear President Mobutu was stashing it in Swiss banks .
尽管外界早就知道，蒙博托总统把钱存在瑞士银行里，这些资金是用来讨好这位冷战盟友的。
But it's a practice so valued by Hong Kongers that many multinational corporations will adhere to it to appease their employees.
不过，因为香港人非常看重风水，许多跨国公司都会忠实践行风水之道，为的是安抚自己的员工。

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