pacify

1. V-T If you pacify someone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased. 安抚

Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?

这是个严肃的步骤呢，还是仅仅用来取悦批评者的？

2. V-T If the army or the police pacify a group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests. 平息

Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels. 政府军发现难以平定叛乱分子。

3. pacificationN-UNCOUNT

...the pacification of the country. ...该国的平定。