mollify的解释

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mollify的意思是：v.安慰；安抚；平息。mollify的详尽释义是v.(动词)抚慰使平静平息缓和安慰使软化减轻使安静消失减缓温和使息怒使镇静安抚。mollify形容词:mollifiable；副词:mollifyingly；名词:mollification；过去式:mollified；过去分词:mollified；现在分词:mollifying；第三人称单数:mollifies。

一、详尽释义点此查看mollify的详细内容

v.(动词)

抚慰
使平静
平息
缓和
安慰
使软化
减轻
使安静
消失
减缓
温和
使息怒
使镇静
安抚

二、英英释义

Verb:

cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;
"she tempered her criticism"
make less rigid or softer

三、词典解释

1.抚慰;安抚
If youmollify someone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry.

e.g. The investigation was undertaken primarily tomollify pressure groups.
展开调查主要是为了安抚那些压力集团。

mollified
He looked first mollified and then relieved as it occurred to him his plight could be worse.
想到自己本可能会陷入更糟糕的困境，他看上去先是感到宽慰，随后又如释重负。

四、例句

He tried to find ways of mollifying her.

他想方设法安慰她。

Regulators often force government-backed firms to shrink to mollify rivals.

监管者常迫使政府支持的公司收缩经营以安抚其竞争对手。

She managed to mollify her angry boss.

她顺利平息了她生气的老板。

He tried to mollify his father's anger by apologizing.

他企图以认错来减缓他父亲的怒气。

We tried to mollify the hysterical child by promising her many gifts.

我们答应给这个歇斯底里的孩子许多礼物，为的是使她平静下来。

五、经典引文

'Always nagging,' muttered Mrs. Darnley, secretly mollified by feeling her son's arm round her waist.
出自：G. Santayana
The Colonel looked crosser, so I added, 'Sir', which mollified him slightly.
出自：A. Guinness

mollify的相关近义词

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