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

• 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。
• 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。
• Music is an appeasement to shattered nerves.
  音乐可抚慰受重创的神经。
• "The United States, Britain and Appeasement 1936-1939"
  美国、英国与绥靖1936-1939
• 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。
• Munich, the 1938 Hitler-Chamberlain meeting that now symbolizes the idea of appeasement ( Jonathan Alter)
  慕尼黑，1938年希特勒与张伯伦的会晤现已为绥靖主义的象征（乔纳森奥尔特）
• 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。
• The proposition is that the world's superpower has a binary choice between aggression and appeasement in the conduct of foreign policy.
  人们的看法是，作为世界超级大国，美国在外交政策上有两种选择：或者咄咄逼人，或者息事宁人。
• 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。
• 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。