mollify
/'mɒlifai/
📖 中文释义
- vt. 平息, 缓和, 减轻, 使变软
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💬 双语例句
(It also would have superseded the murder charges brought against the Democratic Party’s leader, former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.) But Yingluck’s subsequent attempt to backtrack on the amnesty measure failed to mollify the opposition.
Following the referendum, it agreed to what it – and the voters – had just rejected: a set of very painful and difficult conditions. Tsipras and his new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, have gone to extraordinary lengths to mollify Greece’s creditors.
The West should seek to mollify Russia on core strategic questions like NATO expansion. But that will not help Putin to overcome the source of Russia’s weakness, which lies in his inability or unwillingness to see the Soviet Union for the failure that it was.
西方应该寻求在北约扩张等关键战略问题上安抚俄罗斯。 但这无助于普京克服俄罗斯孱弱的根本原因。 俄罗斯的孱弱源于普京不能也不愿如实承认苏联的失败。
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📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- v. make less rigid or softer