appease

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ap·pease /əˈpiːz/ verb [transitiveT] formal

PPANGRYto make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want 平息；安抚，抚慰

They attempted to appease international opposition by promising to hold talks.

他们答应举行会谈，试图以此平息国际上的反对声音。

—appeasement noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement towards Hitler in the 30s

30年代张伯伦对希特拉的绥靖政策

Examples from the Corpus

appease• But Stan was oddly unwilling to be appeased.• Of a burning hunger that only she could appease.• They had no public opinion to appease.• Too often New Labour appeases and buys off opposing forces: this third-way strategy makes few friends or permanent changes.• A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.• Human rights activists accuse the United Nations of appeasing the militia.• This was a clever attempt to appease the people, but it backfired.• Chacon maintains that lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to appease the public amid growing hysteria, pinned the murders on Sharif.

Origin appease

(1300-1400) Old French apaisier, from pais “peace”

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