[ 第三人称单数 pacifies 现在分词 pacifying 过去式 pacified 过去分词 pacified ]
V-T If you pacify someone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased. 安抚
Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?
这是个严肃的步骤呢，还是仅仅用来取悦批评者的？
V-T If the army or the police pacify a group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests. 平息
Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels.
政府军发现难以平定叛乱分子。
pacification N-UNCOUNT
...the pacification of the country.
...该国的平定。
The baby could not be pacified.
怎么也止不住婴儿的哭声。
Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified.
珠儿看见了玫瑰丛，开始叫着要一朵红玫瑰，而且怎么哄都不听
Many have as a result expected that Asia’s rising powers will be managed and pacified by American primacy.
许多人因此期待亚洲大国的崛起由于得到美国优势（American primacy）的驾驭，将会是和平的。
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