pacify
vt. 使(某人)安靜; 息怒; 撫慰; 在(有戰爭的地區、國家等)實現和平
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?...
這一措施是來真的?還是僅僅為了安撫批評人士?
She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
她又尖叫了,無法使她平靜下來。
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...
政府軍發現難以平定叛軍。
They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
當地警察最終把他們鎮壓了下去。
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.
他為安撫債權人償還了部分借款.
Defying his generals , Mr Rumsfeld sent too few troops to Iraq to pacify the country.
全然不顧下屬的意見和建議, 拉姆斯菲爾德派遣為數不多的兵力去平定伊拉克.
You see we were quite right to pacify that country.
你瞧,我們平定那個國家是很對的.
That should pacify her.
那會使她平息下來的.
The U . N . troops are working to pacify Bosnia.
聯合部隊正在為波斯尼亞的和平而努力.