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settle down

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中文: 冷静下来、定居

  1. To make or become quiet and calm after a period of disturbance or restlessness. · It took John a while to settle down after the phone call.
  2. To establish a settled lifestyle for oneself, especially by marrying. (intransitive)
  3. To grow comfortable and familiar with one's new accommodation or circumstances. (intransitive) · I have not yet settled down in my new apartment.
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I’ll be heartily glad when all this fuss is over and you’ll be able to settle down.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第186页 · C1
JUNIOR Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第200页 · C1
But I simply couldn’t settle down to study tonight.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第295页 · C1
A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head gamekeeper.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第8页 · B2

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