appeasement

英 [əˈpiːzmənt]

美 [əˈpiːzmənt]

n.  平息;安抚;绥靖

法律

BNC.22066 / COCA.19362

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 平息;安抚;绥靖
  Appeasementmeans giving people what they want to prevent them from harming you or being angry with you.
  1. He denied there is a policy of appeasement...
     他否认有绥靖政策存在。
  2. They have already been accused of appeasement by more militant organisations.
     已有更多的好战组织谴责他们采取姑息态度。

英英释义

noun

• the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
  Synonym:calming

双语例句

• Since this falls short of immediate unilateral sanctions, many in the US will see it not as a measured escalation but as the continuation of appeasement by other means.
  由于这算不上直接单方面制裁，美国许多人不会认为这是一种有步骤的对抗升级，而是换种方式继续绥靖。
• So no one should be surprised by the latest Russian offensive: there is no more powerful a provocation to the Kremlin than appeasement.
  因此，应该没有人对俄罗斯最新的进攻感到意外：对克里姆林宫来说，没有比绥靖政策更大的挑衅了。
• In Indian politics and public administration, personal loyalty and the appeasement of special interests take precedence over professional competence and the public good.
  在印度的政治和公共管理中，个人忠诚和迎合特殊利益集团优先于专业能力和公共利益。
• Since 1938, when Britain and France allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia, appeasement has had a terrible rap, associated with cowardice and disastrous miscalculation.
  自1938年英国和法国放任德国吞并捷克斯洛伐克的部分地区以来，绥靖政策饱受诟病，人们将之与怯懦、灾难性误判联系在一起。
• Appeasement is an age-old tactic of diplomacy.
  绥靖政策是一种古老的外交策略。
• In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth.
  在这个世纪里，当邪恶的人们密谋化学、生物和核恐怖的时候，绥靖政策会招致地球上从未有过的大毁灭。
• The well-attired diplomats and cologne-drenched corporate executives at the New York conference, now as in Coco Chanel's lifetime, are doing what they do best: appeasement of aggression.
  这次刻意修饰的外交官们和企业的公司高管在纽约的会议，现在正是像香奈儿的一生最擅长的事那样：对侵略采取绥靖政策。
• This is protectionism without the protection. Pure appeasement Politics: calculated and cynical.
  这是毫无保护作用的保护主义，是纯粹的绥靖政治：精心设计且犬儒主义。
• His newspapers were peddling the twin policies of appeasement and optimism.
  他的报纸在竭力兜售姑息与乐观的双重政策。
• It would allow the sharp-witted time to choose appeasement, defence or possibly even pre-emptive attack.
  这可以使他最紧急的时刻选择冷静下来，防守或甚至先发制人。