pacification

英

美

n.  绥靖，媾和；平定，平息；安抚手段; 和解，安定

法律

BNC.38728 / COCA.29654

柯林斯词典

• VERB 安抚；抚慰；使平静
  If youpacifysomeone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased.
  1. Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?...
     这一措施是来真的？还是仅仅为了安抚批评人士？
  2. She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.
     她又尖叫了，无法使她平静下来。
• VERB 平定；平息；镇压
  If the army or the policepacifya group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests.
  1. Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
     政府军发现难以平定叛军。
  2. They were eventually pacified by officers of the local police.
     当地警察最终把他们镇压了下去。

英英释义

noun

• actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
  Synonym:counterinsurgency
• the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
  1. a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants
  2. his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
  Synonym:mollification
• a treaty to cease hostilities
  1. peace came on November 11th
  Synonym:peacepeace treaty

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