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placable

/plak-uh-buhl, pley-kuh-/US // ˈplæk ə bəl, ˈpleɪ kə- //UK // (ˈplækəbəl) //

可安置的,可放置的,可容纳的,可安置

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.

Examples

  • As a rule even the most cantankerous women are placable after afternoon tea.

  • To have both strong, but both selected: in the one, to be placable; in the other immovable.

  • It may be that Otto's death, which he must learn to-morrow, may make him more placable.

  • He had grown strangely tame and placable, and it was generally noticed that he looked older.

  • By means of this concession the placable creditors were able to bring the dissatisfied creditors to reason.