| 词汇 | pacifying |
| 释义 | pacifying present 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 pacifyingpacifying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He claimed that trade reduces the incentives for conflict, and this pacifying effect of trade would diminish rapidly with a larger number of countries. The offering might be accepted, pacifying the deity, or rejected as insufficient or of the wrong kind, angering the deity. Institutions and policies probably do sometimes change when leaders of conflicting classes reassess the costs of conflict and accept pacifying compromises of lesser cost. When states in a dispute do not have any outside politically relevant allies, their alliance definitely has a pacifying effect. Recent evidence, in fact, suggests that the pacifying affect of democracy may be conditional on the level of development. Liberal theory emphasizes the pacifying effects of democratization, economic development and international organizations. Thus, we are able to demonstrate that the pacifying effect of democracy in combination with development extends to rival states, the most conflict prone dyads in the international system. Second, bioethics is often regarded as a specific technology itself, aimed at resolving or at least "pacifying" the moral consequences of the use of medical technologies. If that would cease, there would be a good opportunity of reaching the pacifying situation we all seek to find. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was of course absolutely true, but he overlooked the fact that reconstructing and pacifying the country needed different skills and a different force balance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was always a unifying and pacifying influence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She "went to town" about it, and, believe me, she took some pacifying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In contrast, the word "harmony" is a smooth and pacifying word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the other hand, if they are more interested in pacifying nationalists, they may have a more liberal view of the amendments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have before us the great task of pacifying the world. 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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