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VERB
安抚；抚慰；使平静 If you pacify someone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased.
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Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?...
这一措施是来真的？还是仅仅为了安抚批评人士？
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She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
她又尖叫了，无法使她平静下来。
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VERB
平定；平息；镇压 If the army or the police pacify a group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests.
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Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
政府军发现难以平定叛军。
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They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
当地警察最终把他们镇压了下去。
pacification
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...the pacification of the country.
对国家的平定
