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 placate [plә'keit]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 抚慰, 平息, 使和解, 怀柔



    placate
    [ verb ]
    cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
    <verb.emotion> appease assuage conciliate gentle gruntle lenify mollify pacify
    She managed to mollify the angry customer


    Placate \Plac"ate\, n.
    Same as {Placard}, 4 & 5.


    Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Placated}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Placating}.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
    akin to placere to please. See {Please}.]
    To appease; to pacify; to concilate. ``Therefore is he always
    propitiated and placated.'' --Cudworth.

    1. The suspension of quarterly dividends, which had been four cents a share on Wang's Class B common stock and 2.75 cents a share on Class C stock, was seen as a move to conserve cash and placate nervous bankers.
    2. But Mr. Skinner's statements that Tracinda was cleared to talk to TWA did placate members of Congress who have been pushing the Kerkorian bid.
    3. But its every action suggests that what it really seeks is an independent Taiwan, in part to placate the increasingly powerful DPP opposition party.
    4. He said EPA's refusal to go beyond the treaty in its regulations "appears to reflect a deal struck within the administration last summer" to placate a faction that believed no treaty was necessary.
    5. Student protest leaders today denounced meetings government officials held with students as insincere attempts to placate the students without seriously addressing the democratic reforms they seek.
    6. But, says Ann Crowley, his press secretary, he only said it to placate supporters who were urging him to run.
    7. "The Saudis tried to placate Saddam, accepted his promises about non-aggression and exerted themselves to arrange an understanding between him and the Kuwaiti government," said one Arab diplomat, speaking on condition his name not be used.
    8. The president dissolved Parliament on Dec. 6 and called for elections to try to placate the opposition, but the major parties agreed on a boycott.
    9. New Communist leaders opened the Berlin Wall and promised free elections to placate the masses.
    10. Shamir was making efforts to placate Labor, and was considering a new vote on the peace plan which could remove the party's rationale for leaving the government, Haaretz and four other newspapers said in front-page stories.
    11. However, Mr. Ping's friends don't remember his ever having to take the fall to placate an irate reader.
    12. Hoping to placate the right without caving in, Bush aides are negotiating to have two conservative groups, the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation, train and coach administration appointees.
    13. ESTATE-FREEZE RULES, out at last, won't placate family-business owners.
    14. The extension was interpreted by analysts as an attempt to placate the ordinary shareholders. However, the group announced it was reducing the par value of its shares to FFr5.00 from FFr10.00.
    15. She cited reports that Bush had a pollster, Robert Teeter, heading the search, and that Bush was requesting background information from New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and other Republicans who were not being seriously considered, just to placate them.
    16. He also relishes slashing at his Democratic opponent as "liberal governor of Massachusetts," and that seems to placate the conservative rank and file.
    17. Monday's announcement was the latest move by the Soviet leadership to placate the country's 50 million Moslems _ a group that has become increasingly strident as it grows in size.
    18. The prison releases and the lifting of martial law in Tibet last week both appeared intended to placate such critics.
    19. Mr. Bush can't placate markets with actual economic policy changes until he takes office Jan. 20.
    20. Despite the desire to placate Jackson, a moderate tone is expected to dominate.
    21. The debt, estimated at $4.7 billion, could mortgage the cellular company's future earning power in order to placate some LIN holders in the short term.
    22. He said for a while he tried to placate Mr. Freels by moving his box across Hyde Street next to a cable-car turnaround.
    23. The official Xinhua News Agency said the government shipped half a ton of butter to Lhasa for last month's celebration of Tibetan New Year in an apparent effort to placate the public.
    24. The unexpected move appeared to be part of an effort by Beijing's reform-minded leaders to placate hardliners prior to October's party congress.
    25. Generic-industry officials believe the ruling hasn't been made because of an internal FDA rift between officials who want to placate Rep. Dingell and others who believe Bolar did nothing wrong.
    26. Even though the move cuts tens of thousands of soldiers from Army rolls _ beyond what the service projected it would do in the last Pentagon budget _ the proposal may not placate demands on Capitol Hill for even more severe layoffs.
    27. Author Salman Rushdie's detailed defense of "The Satanic Verses" is winning plaudits from fellow writers but has failed to placate British Moslems who say the novel is blasphemous.
    28. CBS's strong showing is likely to help placate the network's 200-plus affiliate stations, whose managers gather in Los Angeles beginning June 26 for the annual affiliate convention.
    29. One Hungarian official told the Associated Press his government was reluctant to authorize the transfer until it can placate its angry allies in East Berlin.
    30. Authorities moved to placate separatist Moslem militants Monday by dissolving the legislative assembly of Jammu-Kashmir state and acknowledging that the 1987 polls in which it was elected might have been rigged.
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