'I should like to lose something I valued in order to propitiate the fates.

‘我宁愿失去我珍视的东西， 以挽回命运。

Especially I felt this when I made any attempt to propitiate him.

当我试图讨好他时, 我尤其有这种感觉。

Especially I felt this when I made any attempt to propitiate him.  No ruth met my ruth.

当我试图安抚他时，我尤其有这种感觉。没有露丝遇见我的露丝。

Panchu must undergo a purification ceremony to cleanse himself of sin and to propitiate his community.

必须接受净化仪式来净化自己的罪恶并安抚他的社区。

So, that’s what she did, she made some sacrifices like those old school Aztecs who propitiated the Gods with human blood.

所以， 这就是她所做的， 她做出了一些牺牲， 就像那些用祀众神的老派阿兹特克一样。

I myself think that the need to worship is no more than the survival of an old remembrance of cruel gods that had to be propitiated.

我自己认为， 崇拜的需要只不过是残忍的神灵的古老记忆的遗存。 不得不被安抚。

' There had been something so tremendous in the shrinking off of the three, that the wretched man was willing to propitiate even this lad.

’这三个的退缩有着如此巨大的意义，以至于这个可怜的甚至愿意安抚这个小伙子。

Yet this urgency was akin perhaps to the old levity; it, too, was an attempt to ward off some terror, to propitiate some deep unrest that lurked at the bottom of his soul.

然而，这种紧迫感也许类似于过去的轻浮。这也是为了避免某种恐惧，安抚潜伏在他灵魂深处的某种深深的不安。

They had to be constantly propitiated with favorable treatment, and in times of famine or unrest, they required further generous gifts, because if mobilized against the government they could easily overthrow it.

他们必须不断地得到优厚的待遇来安抚，在饥荒或动乱时期，他们还需要更多慷慨的礼物，因为如果动员起来反对政府，他们很容易推翻政府。