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

• The epitome of the policy of appeasement was the Munich agreement of 30 September 1938.
  这种绥靖政策的缩影是1938年9月30日的幕尼黑协定。
• He denied there is a policy of appeasement
  他否认有绥靖政策存在。
• In the appeasement of the glutton they have to practise much stimulation.
  因为要满足这个暴食者，她们不得不做许多伪装。
• Yet no word captures the general mood of Europe better than appeasement.
  然而，没有什么词比绥靖更能体现欧洲当前的普遍心态。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 has come home to roost
  绥靖政策的恶果已经显现出来了。
• The British and French premiers, once they had abandoned appeasement, appealed to the Kremlin to sign an alliance to contain Nazism.
  英法政府首脑一旦抛弃绥靖政策，就呼吁克里姆林宫签订盟约，以遏制纳粹主义。
• 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。