| 词汇 | pacified |
| 释义 | pacified past simple and past participle ofpacify pacify verb[ T ] uk /ˈpæs.ɪ.faɪ/ us /ˈpæs.ə.faɪ/ pacifyverb[T] (CALM)to cause someone who is angry or upset to be calm and satisfied: 使平静，平息;安抚 He pacified his crying child with a bottle.他用奶瓶来哄自己哭闹的孩子。 It was difficult for the police to pacify the angry crowd.警方很难使愤怒的人群平静下来。 to become calm or make someone calm calm downDad was really angry and it was a long time before he calmed down. calmHe calmed the crying baby. settle downChildren, settle down and take your seats! simmer downOkay, simmer down - no one's trying to upset you. cool down/offWhy don't you go for a walk and cool off? chill outMum, chill out! I'll be home before midnight, I promise! Calming and relaxing appease assuage balls-to-the-wall bask bread chill compose let/blow off steamidiom lie down lighten something up lull lull someone into something melt relaxation self-soothe settle settle down shirt simmer simmer down pacifyverb[T] (PEACE)to bring peace to a place or end war in a place, often using military force: 平定，平息;绥靖 A UN force has been sent in to try and pacify the area worst affected by the civil war.已派去一支联合国部队以设法稳定受内战影响最严重的地区。 Stopping fighting anti-militarist anti-militaristic armistice arms beat/turn swords into ploughsharesidiom demilitarize demilitarized zone DMZ drawdown fall fall back lay neutral zone non-combat pacification pacify pull surrender sword truce Related wordpacification Examples of pacifiedpacified In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Granaries in ' hostile ' territory were emptied, while villages, once ' pacified ', were required to provide food to sustain the occupying army. The threatened withdrawal of scholarships may have pacified students of other faculties, but these 'bourgeois' students often had alternative sources of income. It is that whole area that has to be pacified and freed from fear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the bullring, there are bulls that will simply not be pacified. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It has been pacified in the last twenty-five years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is the method adopted—what is the least sop that the working classes will accept by which they will be pacified for the time being? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The details of that occupation, in view of the fact that the country has never been pacified, it would be inappropriate to discuss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They might even be pacified; they might even understand that those behind them and those in front of them desperately mind about the principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can one expect the people to be pacified in the face of such experience? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I allowed enough margin to ensure that everyone could be pacified, and a good result has been achieved today. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English All the time we have had this battle of the waiting lists and the dissatisfied subscriber who had to be pacified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In so far as the new tax will place a penalty on consumers, we ought to argue that they also should be pacified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That happened despite all the safeguards which the firm takes, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that the firm pacified the customer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would not have pacified the area—there is no doubt at all about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have not been pacified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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