His intent is clearly not to placate his critics.

他的目的显然不是要安抚批评他的人。

《牛津词典》

The concessions did little to placate the students.

让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。

《牛津词典》

He smiled, and made a gesture intended to placate me.

他微笑了一下，做了一个意在安抚我的手势。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

But Mr.Netanyahu has not been able to placate the settlers or the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

The first excerpt is from Numbers 14, and it shows Moses' ability to placate the wrath of God.

第一个是来自《民数记》14的片段，展示了摩西,让盛怒的上帝平静的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Moses manages to placate God momentarily, and then he turns around to face the people.

摩西想马上安抚上帝，他把脸转向人民。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There, Congress's state-level chiefs will need time to placate their own angry members if they can.

ECONOMIST: Attempts to satisfy demands for local autonomy backfire

And he needed to figure out how to split up Motorola to placate shareholders like Carl Icahn.

FORBES: The Other Motorola

The British government decided that the best way to do this was to placate the Afrikaners.

ECONOMIST: South Africa