Conciliate

(v. t.) To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

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• How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• From the first he had sought to conciliate that gentleman, for the sake of the deserted girl. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• If they had known about us, you might have felt yourself called upon to conciliate them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And so having easily won the daughter's good-will, the indefatigable little woman bent herself to conciliate the august Lady Southdown. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She seemed to respect him and even to wish to conciliate him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Concede, conciliate, is their motto wherever he is concerned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Instead of softening and conciliating, they but embolden and harden them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Yet his manners are so conciliating and gentle, that the sailors are all interested in him, although they have had very little communication with him. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• With what dread force the conviction would grasp me that Fate was my permanent foe, never to be conciliated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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