Appease
[ ə'piz ]
第4级
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vt. 安抚，缓和;对…让步;绥靖，姑息;满足（欲望）;
💡 词根助记
ap加强+pease=peace平静→平息
📝 例句
A good dinner will appease your hunger.
丰盛的晚餐将为你充饥。
It was a blunder for them to try to appease the aggressor.
他们想姑息侵略者,那是一个大错。
To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions;appease.
平息，安抚，调解平息怒火，尤指通过达成协议；使和解
He hunted up a restaurant to appease his hunger.
他好容易找到一家餐馆去填饱肚子。
Nothing could appease the crying child.
什么都无法使孩子不哭。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ ap-拼音“阿婆”,pease-peace和睦:和阿婆和睦相处,家庭矛盾缓和了
※ ap-拼音“阿婆”,p-拼音“拍”,ease-容易:阿婆用手拍拍他,这样容易平静下来
✅ 同义词
🔴 反义词
🔤 词根
ad-在p前变为ap-
表示“在；使；向”
📖 牛津释义
appease
v[Tn]
make (sb/sth) quiet or calm, usu by making concessions or by satisfying demands 使（某人[某事物]）安静或平息（通常为作出让步或满足要求）
appease sb's anger/hunger/curiosity 平息某人的怒气[使某人充饥/满足某人的好奇心].
🔁 扩展释义
*[ә'pi:z]vt. 抚慰, 缓解, 平息, 姑息【法】 使和缓, 使满足, 姑息
🌿 同词根单词
📖 同为「GRE」词汇
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I don't feel that industry should be dictated to by the government.
我觉得那个行业不应该由政府来支配。
Know something of everything and everything of something.
既要有一般常识，又要有专业知识。
Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.
不过，在现实生活中，有时确实会出现一些巧合，这些巧合除了19世纪小说家外谁也不会相信。