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To mollify someone is to make them feel less angry and less upset — to take the heat out of their feelings. You might mollify a parent with a clear apology, or mollify an angry customer by fixing the bill. It is about the person, not about changing the facts of the world. Though actually, it does not always mean you solved the real problem; sometimes you only made them less hot, for now. The verb is a little formal and . In speech people more often say calm someone down, smooth things over, or talk them down. You will still meet mollify in news, school writing, and careful adult talk. It does not mean to become a “moll,” and it is not about making an object physically soft, even though the old Latin idea behind it was “make soft.”
安撫；平息（怒氣）
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mollifyverb/ˈmɒlɪfaɪ/
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To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
- mollify someone’s anger
- attempt to mollify
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To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
- He tried to mollify the angry customer.
- Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
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To soften; to make tender.
- Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.
- By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。