quiet down

英 [ˈkwaɪət daʊn]

美 [ˈkwaɪət daʊn]

（使）安静; （使）平静下来

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-ERG (使)安静;(使)平静下来
  If someone or somethingquiets downor if youquietthemdown, they become less noisy or less active.
  1. Once the vote was taken, things quieted down quickly...
     一旦投完票，事情便很快平息了下来。
  2. Try gradually to quiet them down as bedtime approaches.
     临近就寝的时候，要尽量让他们渐渐安静下来。

in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 quieten down

英英释义

verb

• become quiet or quieter
  1. The audience fell silent when the speaker entered
  Synonym:quietenhushquietquiescepipe down

双语例句

• Sometimes he'd quiet down and just stare sadly at the floor, like a man whittling.
  有时他会静下来，纯粹悲哀地凝视着地板，象一个正在用小刀削刻的人。
• Liu Jianquan, a26-year-old student at the University of Tsukuba ( an hour's drive from Tokyo), said he sometimes has to call the police to get his Japanese dorm mates to quiet down.
  26岁的刘建全就读于筑波大学（距东京一小时的路程），他说有时候他不得不向警察求助，这样才能让他的那些日本室友安静下来。
• How did you get him to quiet down?
  你是怎么把他给摩挲顺了的？
• To quiet down the battle between sexes, human beings must overcome selfishness and greed and realize the equality, mutual aid and harmonious co-existence of both sexes.
  人类要平息两性纷争，就必须克服本性中的自私和贪欲，实现两性之间的平等互助和谐共存。
• Isolation and loneliness, this pair of twins, people in the impulse in the quiet down and sink quietly thinking.
  孤独和寂寞，这一对孪生子，让人于冲动中沉静下来，静静的沉入思索。
• Sings happiness, the things quiet down.
  唱幸福、曲终人散。
• They'll usually quiet down.
  他们通常会安静的。
• It makes me from the bitterness of gradually quiet down, with the mind to accept things which can not be changed, and then motivate themselves with the courage to change can change things.
  它让我从悲愤中渐渐地安静下来，用胸怀接受了不能改变的事情，然后激励自己用勇气来改变可以改变的事情。
• Classroom immediately quiet down and come up with the heroic men were busy "shield"-book.
  教室立刻安静下来，英雄好汉们忙拿出“挡箭牌”――书。
• At this point, limitations on that individual reach a peak instantly and then things quiet down substantially.
  在此时，个人限制达到了一个顶峰并且事情本质上平息了下来。