Word · Frequency #14474
quieten
(使)安静, 平静下来
become quiet or quieter
- 1.
make calm or still
使平静或安静
- 2.
cause to be quiet or not talk
使安静或不说话
- 3.
become quiet or quieter
变得安静或更安静
抚慰, 安慰；使平静或安静；使安静或不说话；变得安静或更安静；vt. (使)安静
In use
The mother quietens her baby by singing a lullaby.
After the storm quietened, we went outside to assess the damage.
The teacher is quietening the class with a calm voice.
quieten sb/sth down
及物短语动词，表示使某人或某物安静下来。
She quietened the baby down.
她让婴儿安静下来。
quieten down
不及物短语动词，表示自己安静下来。
The children quietened down after the teacher spoke.
老师说话后，孩子们安静了下来。
quieten sb/sth
He quietened his fears.
他平息了恐惧。
Connections
Collocations
- quieten down
- 安静下来；（使）平息
- The children finally quietened down after lunch.孩子们午饭后终于安静下来了。
- quieten fears
- 消除担忧，安抚恐惧
- The government tried to quieten public fears about the new policy.政府试图消除公众对新政策的担忧。
- quieten nerves
- 平复紧张情绪
- She took a deep breath to quieten her nerves before the interview.面试前她深吸一口气平复紧张情绪。
- quieten the crowd
- 使人群安静下来
- The speaker raised his hand to quieten the crowd.演讲者举起手让人群安静下来。
- quieten protests
- 平息抗议
- The announcement did little to quieten the protests.这一声明几乎没有平息抗议。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
谐音“quiet+en”，想象对吵闹者说“quiet!”使其安静，即“使…安静下来”。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：informal British speech、formal writing/news 通常用于英式英语，正式与日常场合都可见：正式表达如“quieten fears”，日常口语如“quieten down”。在美式英语中更常用“quiet”作动词。比较常见于书面语，口语中语气较柔和。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Brighten, frighten, lighten, and whiten all end in the spelling chunk -ten and share the suffix -en; they are pronounced with /-aɪtən/, whereas quieten is given here as /ˈkwaɪətn/, so the extra /ə/ keeps it from being an exact rhyme. Quiet /ˈkwaɪət/ and quite /kwaɪt/ look similar to quieten but sound different: quiet has two syllables and quite rhymes with "kite", and neither ends in /ən/.
Learn the forms together
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