settle

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英[?setl]
美[?setl]

基本釋義

v.
結(jié)束(分歧); 庭外和解; 結(jié)(賬); (使)坐下; (使)沉降; 安排好; 定居; 注視著; 降落
n.
高背長椅

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

to settle a dispute/an argument/a matter

解決爭端 / 爭論 / 事情

牛津詞典

It's time you settled your differences with your father.

現(xiàn)在你該解決同你父親之間的分歧了。

牛津詞典

There is pressure on the unions to settle.

工會(huì)組織面臨消除紛爭的壓力。

牛津詞典

The company has agreed to settle out of court (= come to an agreement without going to court) .

那家公司同意庭外解決。

牛津詞典

It's all settled ─we're leaving on the nine o'clock plane.

一切都定下來了——我們乘九點(diǎn)的航班走。

牛津詞典

Bob will be there? That settles it . I'm not coming.

鮑勃會(huì)去嗎?那好,我就不去了。

牛津詞典

He had to settle his affairs (= arrange all his personal business) in Paris before he could return home.

他得把他在巴黎的事情料理好才能回家。

牛津詞典

She settled in Vienna after her father's death.

父親死后,她就在維也納定居了。

牛津詞典

This region was settled by the Dutch in the nineteenth century.

荷蘭人于十九世紀(jì)來到這一地區(qū)定居。

牛津詞典

Ellie settled back in her seat.

埃利舒適地靠著椅背坐下。

牛津詞典

He settled himself comfortably in his usual chair.

他在自己慣常坐的椅子上舒舒服服地坐下來。

牛津詞典

I settled her on the sofa and put a blanket over her.

我把她放在沙發(fā)上安頓好,給她蓋了一條毯子。

牛津詞典

She settled the blanket around her knees.

她用毯子裹住膝蓋。

牛津詞典

They agreed to try to settle their dispute by negotiation...

他們同意通過談判來努力解決糾紛。

Both sides are looking for ways to settle their differences...

雙方都在尋求消除分歧的方法。

In an attempt to settle the case, Molken has agreed to pay restitution...

為了爭取庭外和解,莫爾肯同意賠款。

She got much less than she would have done if she had settled out of court...

如果她同意庭外和解的話,得到的肯定會(huì)更多。

I settled the bill for my coffee and his two glasses of wine...

我為我的咖啡和他的兩杯葡萄酒付了賬。

They settled with Colin at the end of the evening.

晚上聚會(huì)結(jié)束的時(shí)候他們和科林結(jié)清了賬。

As far as we're concerned, the matter is settled...

我們這邊已經(jīng)安排妥當(dāng)了。

That's settled then. We'll exchange addresses tonight.

那就定下來了,我們今晚交換聯(lián)系地址。

She offered to settle a legacy on Katharine.

她提出要把一筆遺產(chǎn)留給凱瑟琳。

Refugees settling in Britain suffer from a number of problems...

在英國定居的難民面臨很多問題。

He visited Paris and eventually settled there...

他造訪了巴黎,并最終在那兒定居下來。

Albert settled himself on the sofa...

艾伯特舒舒服服地坐在沙發(fā)上。

Jessica settled into her chair with a small sigh of relief.

杰茜卡微微松了口氣,坐到了椅子上。

A black dust settled on the walls...

墻上落了一層黑色的粉塵。

Once its impurities had settled, the oil could be graded...

一旦雜質(zhì)沉淀下去,油就可以分級(jí)了。

The man let his eyes settle upon Cross's face.

那名男子的目光落在了克羅斯的臉上。

Moths flew in front of it, eventually settling on the rough painted metal.

幾只蛾子在它前面飛,最終落在了那塊粗糙的噴漆金屬上。

真題例句

And, for the time being, we settle.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

When Donna returned to the States, she couldn't settle down.

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

Pat's children were with their father, so she took a picnic lunch to her friends new plays, then spend the day helping her unpack and get settled

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

Now I would like to settle my mini-bar bill.

2017年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell phone, Dr. Dickson said.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

It was settled after more than two years of negotiation.

出自-2011年12月閱讀原文

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama assembled a racially and ideologically diverse coalition with his message of hope and change; as the reality of life under a new administration settles in, some of those supporters might become disillusioned.

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

Where does the butterfly settle at the end of the migration?

出自-2014年6月聽力原文

Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds, but I don't know if they might settle for us.

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

Brown would like to see their daughter settled down, get married, and have kids.

2017年高考英語天津卷 單項(xiàng)填空 原文

I settled down in the darkness, and the curtains opened.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 語法填空 原文

It was a rainy morning and the children, mainly boys with various learning difficulties, refused to settle for the start of the lesson.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 完形填空 原文

Most radio stations settled in the large villas in the leafy areas of the town.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

People settle in these places because they are easy to get to and naturally suited to communications and trade.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

The habima is the centre of hebrew-language theatre worldwide, founded in Moscow after the 1905 revolution, the company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late 1920s, since 1958, they have been recognised as the National Theatre of Israel.

2017年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

They have settled their environmental problems.

2014年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項(xiàng)

They settled in at a comfortable east side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words:.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a long wooden bench with a back

Verb
  • 1. settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground;

    "dust settled on the roofs"

  • 2. bring to an end; settle conclusively;

    "The case was decided"

    "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"

    "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"

  • 3. settle conclusively; come to terms;

    "We finally settled the argument"

  • 4. take up residence and become established;

    "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"

  • 5. come to terms;

    "After some discussion we finally made up"

  • 6. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

  • 7. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style;

    "He finally settled down"

  • 8. become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet;

    "The roar settled to a thunder"

    "The wind settled in the West"

    "it is settling to rain"

    "A cough settled in her chest"

    "Her mood settled into lethargy"

  • 9. establish or develop as a residence;

    "He settled the farm 200 years ago"

    "This land was settled by Germans"

  • 10. come to rest

  • 11. become clear by the sinking of particles;

    "the liquid gradually settled"

  • 12. arrange or fix in the desired order;

    "She settled the teacart"

  • 13. accept despite complete satisfaction;

    "We settled for a lower price"

  • 14. end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement;

    "The two parties finally settled"

  • 15. dispose of; make a financial settlement

  • 16. cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)

  • 17. sink down or precipitate;

    "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"

  • 18. fix firmly;

    "He ensconced himself in the chair"

  • 19. get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury;

    "I finally settled with my old enemy"

  • 20. make final; put the last touches on; put into final form;

    "let's finalize the proposal"

  • 21. form a community;

    "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"

  • 22. come as if by falling;

    "Night fell"

    "Silence fell"

同義詞辨析

decide, determine, resolve, settle

這些動(dòng)詞都含"決定"之意。

  • decide: 側(cè)重指經(jīng)過思考、比較、討論或詢問之后做出的決定。
  • determine: 指經(jīng)過深思熟慮,決心去做某事并堅(jiān)持施行。
  • resolve: 語氣較強(qiáng),強(qiáng)調(diào)以堅(jiān)定不移的信念去做或不做某事,暗含有遠(yuǎn)大抱負(fù)和堅(jiān)強(qiáng)決心。
  • settle: 指排除猶豫、懷疑和爭論之后作出明確的最終結(jié)論。

dwell, reside, live, lodge, inhabit, settle

這些動(dòng)詞均有"居住,定居"之意。

  • dwell: 文學(xué)上的用詞,口語中通常用live代替。
  • reside: 書面用詞,指合法的永久性居住,也指在豪華的住宅里居住。
  • live: 最普通用詞,指固定的居住,可以是長期的,也可以是臨時(shí)的。
  • lodge: 指短時(shí)間或臨時(shí)住宿。
  • inhabit: 強(qiáng)調(diào)人或動(dòng)物居住在某個(gè)地區(qū)并已適應(yīng)某種特殊環(huán)境。
  • settle: 側(cè)重指某人定居于城市、國家或地區(qū),而不指居住的住所。

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