pacify
vt. 使(某人)安静; 息怒; 抚慰; 在(有战争的地区、国家等)实现和平
If you pacify someone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased.
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?
She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
她又尖叫了,无法使她平静下来。
If the army or the police pacify a group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests.
Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
政府军发现难以平定叛军。
They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
当地警察最终把他们镇压了下去。
1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
2. fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location);
He tried to pacify his creditors by repaying part of the money.
他为安抚债权人偿还了部分借款.
Defying his generals , Mr Rumsfeld sent too few troops to Iraq to pacify the country.
全然不顾下属的意见和建议, 拉姆斯菲尔德派遣为数不多的兵力去平定伊拉克.
You see we were quite right to pacify that country.
你瞧,我们平定那个国家是很对的.
That should pacify her.
那会使她平息下来的.
The U . N . troops are working to pacify Bosnia.
联合部队正在为波斯尼亚的和平而努力.