pacifying

英 [ˈpæsɪfaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈpæsɪfaɪɪŋ]

v.  使平静; 平息; 抚慰; 平息战争; 使实现和平
pacify的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 安抚；抚慰；使平静
  If youpacifysomeone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased.
  1. 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？
  2. She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
     她又尖叫了，无法使她平静下来。
• VERB 平定；平息；镇压
  If the army or the policepacifya group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests.
  1. Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
     政府军发现难以平定叛军。
  2. They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
     当地警察最终把他们镇压了下去。

双语例句

• The peculiar aroma is conducive to relaxing and pacifying, creating a fragrant atmosphere for taking a bath.
  特有芳香气息有助于放松心情、松驰安抚情绪，营造沐浴芬芳氛围。
• For Pat Oliphant, President Bush's attempt to conduct a normal presidency while pacifying Iraq is like living in a small flat with a large tiger.
  在漫画家奥列芬特看来，布什总统要想在伊拉克恢复和平的同时履行总统的正常职能，就像和一只大老虎住在一件小房子里。
• Its people are hearty; its terrain can be craggy and daunting, or softly pacifying.
  它的人民是热诚的；它的地形可能是崎岖吓人的，或者说是软软地让人感到抚慰。
• Prince Charles was told by Queen Elizabeth to go ahead with the divorce and to stop pacifying his alcoholic wife, according to the July 14th print edition of Globe Magazine.
  据7月第14期的Globe杂志报道，女王伊丽莎白二世要求查尔斯王子着手离婚并停止安抚他酗酒的妻子。
• On the whole, Pre-Qin Confucians place theirs 'ideal of governing the country and pacifying the world on Monarch and His Subjects with holy morality, it has a distinct tendency of moral idealism.
  总的看来，先秦儒家把治国、平天下的理想寄托于有内圣之德的君臣之上，具有鲜明的道德理想主义倾向。
• The main contents of Guan Zhong 'legality thoughts consist of the concept that the law governs a country, the principle that both proprieties and laws are important, and the guideline that orders should conform to people's will and be pacifying and deterrent.
  以法治国的法制观念，礼法并重的法制原则，令顺民心、且怀且威的法制指导思想是构成管仲法制思想体系的主要内容。
• Her charm lies also in that air of timeless maternalism, that calm and pacifying presence, which can dispel a man's moments of frustration and anger and restore his failures of will.
  她的魔力，还正在于她永久的母性。她的喧闹与慰藉能抹去他的失败与恼怒，复原他的志气和坚强。
• Le Quy Don paid attention to the sea and made much record of the coastland, inshore islands, islets, shoals and coastal voyages in the middle and southern Vietnam in his writing of Phu Bien Tap Luc ( A Miscellany of Pacifying Frontier Areas).
  黎贵惇关注海洋，所著《抚边杂录》中对于越南中部和南部沿海岸地区、近海岛屿沙洲和近海航海活动有较多记载。
• I pray you, answered the minister, if thou hast any means of pacifying the child, do it forthwith!
  我恳求你了，牧师回答说，如果你有什么办法能让这孩子安静下来，赶紧拿出来吧！
• Heretofore, the way of great learning lay in ruling the country and pacifying the land; now ruling the country and pacifying the land lies in the way of the university, which in addition is wide and open.
  从前大学之道在治国平天下，现在治国平天下在大学之道，并且是条坦道大道。