v.安撫；緩和；平息；姑息

Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler at Munich. 張伯倫在慕尼黑盡量安撫希特勒。

His attempts to appease her only added fuel to the fire. 他試著安撫她，結(jié)果卻造成火上加油的局面。

State governments are left scrabbling to appease ruraldisgruntlement rather than investing in efforts to lift theproductivity of land and labour. 政府花錢努力來(lái)提高農(nóng)民和工人的生產(chǎn)力還不如想辦法緩和農(nóng)民的不滿。

Many in the New Republic began to turn against the Jedi in an effort to appease the Yuuzhan Vong and blunt their destructive incursions. 新共和國(guó)的許多人開(kāi)始反對(duì)絕地，他們對(duì)遇戰(zhàn)瘋?cè)藢?shí)施綏靖政策，試圖以此緩和遇戰(zhàn)瘋?cè)藲缧缘娜肭中袆?dòng)。

It is a blunder for them to try to appease the aggressor. 他們想姑息侵略者，那是一個(gè)大錯(cuò)。

State-run media in Egypt said Mr. Bush aims to do nothing but appease Israel. 埃及官方媒體說(shuō)，除了姑息以色列外，布什沒(méi)有其他目的。

appease的基本意思是“平息”,指平息怒氣、平息紛爭(zhēng)等或以滿足對(duì)方要求等讓步方式來(lái)?yè)嵛磕橙?使其停止做某事。引申可指緩解饑渴,使人的胃口或欲望等得到滿足等。

appease只用作及物動(dòng)詞,后可接名詞或代詞作賓語(yǔ); appease可用于被動(dòng)結(jié)構(gòu)。