olive-branch
基本解释
- 橄榄枝
英汉例句
- After years of quarrelling we at last sent our cousins a Christmas card as an olive-branch.
我们与堂兄弟多年不和，最后我们送给他们一张圣诞卡，算是化。 - Stuart Levy,a co-founder of Olive Branch D.C., a Washington-based interfaith group bringing together young professional Jews and Muslims.
- The extra-long olive branch will be slightly unusual for Microsoft if it's confirmed, but then the company is also trying to move along a user base that in some cases has clung to XP for more than a decade.
ENGADGET: Microsoft reportedly plans Windows 8 upgrades all the way from XP, wants us to just let go of the past - McLennan, 64, coordinates out-of-town trips for Olive Branch seniors.
FORBES: Sheboygan WI - It was an olive branch to his by-then estranged friend and a plea for him to return to the yellow house, where they had once depicted this middle-aged proprietress of a local cafe.
ECONOMIST: Van Gogh and Gauguin: Sunny side down The
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英英字典
- If you offer an olive branch to someone, you say or do something in order to show that you want to end a disagreement or quarrel.