Placating protesting workers may help calm a tense situation .
安抚抗议的工人可以缓和紧张的情况。
I would hate to think you were placating me to talk about cynthia .
我真不想你说有关辛西娅的事情来安慰我。
Though the banks remain frustratingly opaque , they did at least go some way this week to placating those who suspect their accounting style of being more mark-to-make-believe than mark-to-market .
Some of his closest political allies see mr. netanyahu as a right-wing ideologue who , despite placating washington with lip service to creating a palestinian state , would never carry out such plans .