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

• Stemmed from pacifying policy of Tang Dynasty, and further developed in Yuan and Qing Dynasties, China chieftain system gradually matured in Qing Dynasty.
  在唐代羁縻政策基础上演化而来的土司制度，经过元、明两代的发展，到清代已日臻完善。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Bush Administration's Taiwan policy has been shifted from pro-Taiwan and pacifying Taiwan to curbing Taiwan, a policy that is of continuous adjustment, clear strategy, stronger military relations and adverse interaction with China policy.
  布什政府第一任期内的对台政策经历了从亲台、抚台向抑台的转变，呈现出不断调整、战略清晰化、军事关系强化、与对华政策反向互动等特征。
• 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。
• The unusual gesture is likely to go a long way in pacifying the anger and frustrations of the thousands stranded across the country, CNN's Jaime Florcruz said.
  这种不寻常的姿态将会在相当长的一段时间内抚平被困者的愤怒和伤痛。CNNJaimeFlorcruz评论说。
• 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。
• 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。
• It suggests that the decline of the west began precisely when Nato pulled out of Afghanistan without accomplishing [ its] mission of pacifying the Taliban.
  信中说，北约没有完成平定塔利班的使命即撤出阿富汗的那一刻，正是西方衰落开始之时。