appease

英语

词源

源自中古英语 apesen ← 古法语 apeser (“使平静”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/əˈpiːz/
• 韵部：-iːz

动词

appease (第三人称单数简单现在时 appeases, 现在分词 appeasing, 一般过去时及过去分词 appeased)

1. 使平静

   近义词： calm、pacify、placate、quell、quiet、still、lull

   to appease the tumult of the ocean

   使海洋的波动平静下来

   • 1897, 布莱姆·斯托克 《德拉库拉》 章21

     'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'

2. 使息怒

   近义词： mollify、propitiate

   They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

   他们用烧过的供品平息了神的愤怒。

反义词

• antagonize

派生词

• appeasatory
• appeasement
• appeaser

 

拓展阅读

• “appease”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “appease”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587

异序词

• paepaes