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单词 appeasement
释义 ap·pease·ment
\-mənt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English appesement, from Middle French apaisement, from Old French, from apaisier + -ment
1.
 a. : the act or action of appeasing : pacification
  < one tribe may go in for the appeasement of local ghosts — W.D.Howells >
  : conciliation
  < that we should accept wrong and call it right … would be appeasement at its most cowardly — A.L.Guérard >
 b. : the state of being appeased : satisfaction
  < an experience from which he derived little appeasement >
2. : a policy of appeasing a potential aggressor
 < some defensible reasons for the appeasement which London and Paris practiced in the thirties — D.F.Fleming >
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