appeasement

英 [əˈpiːzmənt]

美 [əˈpiːzmənt]

n.  平息;安抚;绥靖

法律

BNC.22066 / COCA.19362

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 平息;安抚;绥靖
  Appeasementmeans giving people what they want to prevent them from harming you or being angry with you.
  1. He denied there is a policy of appeasement...
     他否认有绥靖政策存在。
  2. They have already been accused of appeasement by more militant organisations.
     已有更多的好战组织谴责他们采取姑息态度。

英英释义

noun

• the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
  Synonym:calming

双语例句

• The truth is that China reneged, ignoring those who called for patience and vindicating those who said appeasement would fail.
  可事实是，中国食言了。它无视那些呼吁耐心的人，并由此证明那些认为绥靖策略会失败的人是对的。
• In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth.
  在这个世纪里，当邪恶的人们密谋化学、生物和核恐怖的时候，绥靖政策会招致地球上从未有过的大毁灭。
• In the appeasement of the glutton they have to practise much stimulation.
  因为要满足这个暴食者，她们不得不做许多伪装。
• This is protectionism without the protection. Pure appeasement Politics: calculated and cynical.
  这是毫无保护作用的保护主义，是纯粹的绥靖政治：精心设计且犬儒主义。
• He was convinced appeasement would never work.
  他相信绥靖政策是不会奏效的。
• Since 1938, when Britain and France allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia, appeasement has had a terrible rap, associated with cowardice and disastrous miscalculation.
  自1938年英国和法国放任德国吞并捷克斯洛伐克的部分地区以来，绥靖政策饱受诟病，人们将之与怯懦、灾难性误判联系在一起。
• Music is an appeasement to shattered nerves.
  音乐可抚慰受重创的神经。
• The proposition is that the world's superpower has a binary choice between aggression and appeasement in the conduct of foreign policy.
  人们的看法是，作为世界超级大国，美国在外交政策上有两种选择：或者咄咄逼人，或者息事宁人。
• Appeasement has come home to roost
  绥靖政策的恶果已经显现出来了。
• The Europeans 'appeasement policy towards irrational regimes would only aggravate the hidden dangers.
  欧洲国家对非理性政权的绥靖政策，只会让潜在危机恶化。