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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。
(使)安静, 平静下来
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(使)安静, 平静下来
become quiet or quieter
She quietened the baby down.
她让婴儿安静下来。
使平静或安静
make calm or still
使安静或不说话
cause to be quiet or not talk
变得安静或更安静
become quiet or quieter
quieten
Base
原形
quietens
3rd person
第三人称单数
quietening
-ing
现在分词
quietened
Past
过去式
quietened
Past participle
过去分词
She quietens the children.
她让孩子们安静下来。
He quietened down after a while.
过了一会儿他平静下来了。
They are quietening the crowd.
他们正在让人群安静下来。
The mother quietens her baby by singing a lullaby.
母亲通过哼唱摇篮曲使婴儿安静下来。
After the storm quietened, we went outside to assess the damage.
暴风雨平静下来后，我们出去评估损失。
The teacher is quietening the class with a calm voice.
老师用平静的声音让班级安静下来。
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。
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。
He quietened his fears.
他平息了恐惧。
Not this
The children are very quieten.
Use this
The children are very quiet.
“quieten”是动词，表示“（使）安静”，不能用作形容词。描述状态时应用形容词“quiet”。
Not this
She quieted the room.
Use this
She quietened the room.
动词“quieten”的过去式是“quietened”，不是“quieted”。后者是“quiet”的过去式，但此处使用“quieten”更规范。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
平息抗议
The announcement did little to quieten the protests.
这一声明几乎没有平息抗议。
平静下来；安静下来
The noise quietened down after midnight.
午夜过后，噪音安静了下来。
消除某人的担忧；平息某人的顾虑
The government moved to quieten fears about inflation.
政府采取行动消除人们对通货膨胀的担忧。
安抚良心；使良心安宁
He gave the money back to quieten his conscience.
他把钱还了回去，以安抚自己的良心。
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谐音“quiet+en”，想象对吵闹者说“quiet!”使其安静，即“使…安静下来”。
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。
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/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.