placating

v.

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  • 英英释义

1. VERB 安抚;抚慰 If you placate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry. 
  • He smiled, trying to placate me...

    他微笑着,想要安抚我。

  • 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice.

    阿格纽用抚慰的语气说:“我不是有意让你不高兴。”

Adjective

1. tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions;

  • "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"
  • "placating (or placative) gestures"
  • "an astonishingly placatory speech"