quiet down

基本解释

The teacher made the rowdy class quiet down .
老师使这吵闹的班级安静了下来。
You can’t wait for the world to quiet down before you start focusing on your own well-being.
你不可能等到这个时间安静下来，你才开始关注你自己的幸福。
Still more induce biologically destructive electron-stripping chemical reactions that won’t quiet down without a copious release of antioxidants.
还有一些污染物会引发电子剥离化学反应，没释放大量抗氧化剂这种生物破坏性反应是不会平息的。

Witnesses say at one point early Friday morning, The chief mediator at the talks, former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano ordered Mr.Rajoelina to sit down and be quiet when he threatened to walk out.

Then it tends to quiet down for about five weeks starting in mid August, he noted.
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Things seemed to quiet down over Greece until Friday, when new tensions emerged.
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His out-of-the-(pizza)-box thinking caused the conversation to drift from tax to politics, and things seemed to quiet down a bit.
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