英 ['setl daʊn] 美 [ˈsetl daʊn]
安定下来：变得安静、平静或有秩序。
安顿下来：开始过安定、稳定的生活，找到稳定的工作、结婚等。
舒适地坐下：使自己处于舒适的位置。
安静下来并开始关注某事：变得安静并开始关注某事。
settle down // [ settling settled settles ]
动词词组 When someone settles down, they start living a quiet life in one place, especially when they get married or buy a house. (尤指因结了婚或买了房而) 安顿下来
One day I'll want to settle down and have a family.
总有一天我会想安顿下来，成个家。
动词词组 If a situation or a person that has been going through a lot of problems or changes settles down, they become calm. 安定下来; 平静下来
It'd be fun, after the situation in Europe settles down, to take a trip to France.
欧洲局势平定下来之后，去法国旅行将会很好玩。
动词词组 If you settle down to do something or to something, you prepare to do it and concentrate on it. 安下心来 (做某事)
He got his coffee, came back and settled down to listen.
他取了咖啡回来安心听了起来。
动词词组 If you settle down for the night, you get ready to lie down and sleep. 安歇
They put up their tents and settled down for the night.
他们搭起帐篷，安歇下来。
settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
同义词： settle
become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
同义词： settle / root / take root / steady down
定居-引用次数：4
But research the settle down current situation to herdsmanmostly, herdsman produce angle , life style of changes carry on research.
但是这些研究大多都是针对牧民定居现状,牧民生产生活方式变迁的角度进行研究的。
参考来源新疆游牧民族定居问题的研究
... think of: 想 (思维的活动) settle down: 定居 had no sooner done ...than 一般过去时： (关联词) 一 ... 就 ...
... meet with 偶然遇见/碰见；开会 settle down 定居，过安定的生活；安下心来，平静下来 adjust (oneself) to…调整，调节；适应 ...
... set up 树立；建起；安装；成立；修建；恢复疲劳，休养好 settle down 坐下来；安居下来；安家；安定下来；冷静下来；降临 short of 不足；缺乏 ...
... The Dutch settled in South Africa.荷兰人在南非定居。 settle (oneself) down to sth. 安下心来做某事 settle down (活动一段时间后)平静下来；舒舒服服地坐下； 躺下；定居；成家 ...
定居；安定下来；专心于
When are you going to get married and settle down?
你打算什么时候成家，安定下来？
He was tired of the merry-go-round of romance and longed to settle down.
他厌倦了没完没了的风流韵事，渴望安定下来。
He tried to settle down in a new country.
他试着在一个新的国家定居下来。
But she found it impossible to settle down.
VOA : special.2009.02.22
Just come in and settle down, because it's very hard to lecture with this amount of traffic.
进来以后就赶紧坐下来,你们这样乱糟糟的我讲不下去
基础物理课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
This is an exciting week in science in general because we got to hear another Nobel Prize every morning pretty much. So, let's settle down for a second and start listening.
这周在科学界是个激动人心的一周,因为我们每个早上,都能听到一个诺贝尔奖，让我们来听一听。
化学原理课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
But Boit wasn't ready to settle down on the family farm,and still isn't.
VOA : standard.2010.01.22
And it is absolutely timely. It's is such an unsettled situation in Bosnia at the moment that you need something to settle it down.
VOA : standard.2009.10.26
As Parisians settle down to sleep, trains radiate out across the continent in all directions.
Where you settle down is really a choice of who you want to be.
" And I say, "Settle down, Joe, I'm trying to run a Cabinet meeting.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at the 2012 Alfred E. Smith Dinner