Pacify

(verb.) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); 'The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia'.

(verb.) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; 'She managed to mollify the angry customer'.

校对:潘西

• It was the sum she had set aside to pacify her dress-maker--unless she should decide to use it as a sop to the jeweller. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Perhaps he of whom we say the last will be angry with us; can we pacify him without revealing the disorder of his mind? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Julia wavered; but was he only trying to soothe and pacify her, and make her overlook the previous affront? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It has been said of Earl Durham, who pacified Canada at this time and established the present system of government, that he made a country and marred a career. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They got him pacified at last; and for five years arter that, he never even so much as peeped out o' the lodge gate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Caroline was not yet pacified. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Indulgent Mr. Godfrey pacified her by taking a sheet of paper, and drawing out the declaration. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on continuing the argument. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Haley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden hard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in recapturing his prey. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• One morning little Georgette had been more feverish and consequently more peevish; she was crying, and would not be pacified. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I invented news of the most pacifying kind, assuring her that she was about to see her sister at my house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Some authorities think that the spread of Buddhist teaching from China also had a pacifying influence upon them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

编辑:兰尼