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
- To mollify Mr Wynn and Mr Ho, both were allowed to sell one sub-concession apiece.
为了安抚韦恩和何鸿燊，他们各自获准出售一张次级经营权牌照。 - 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。 - His explanation failed to mollify her.
他的解释未能消解她的怒气。 - 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。 - To answer it with perfect storms and an Alzheimer's fun run might mollify some, but if I were an investor I would be not merely tearful, but quite put out, too.
用完美风暴和老年痴呆症的笑话可能会安抚部分投资者，但换了我，将不仅仅会流泪，还会撤资。 - 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。 - You won't be able to mollify her with flowers.
你无法用鲜花来抚慰她。 - The current secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, called Turkey's foreign minister, prime minister and president to mollify them.
现任国务卿康多莉扎？赖斯（CondoleezzaRice）拜访了土耳其外长、总理和总统，以安抚他们。 - You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole.
不可能取悦、平息或改造一个混蛋。