calm down

（使)平静； （使)安静

May: Calm down, sweety.(阿美:冷静一点，亲爱的。)

Calm down, buddy [old chap]. What's the trouble?(压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？)

Otherwise, calm down and go home – please.(否则，请你们冷静下来，回到家里去。)

If you're mad, give yourself time to calm down.(如果你快气疯了，给自己时间冷静下来。)

Please calm down and tell me what's wrong.(请冷静下来告诉我发生什么事了。)

Calm down! Can't you see he's only winding you up?(别激动！难道你看不出他只是在气你吗？)

This critic generated I think some undue rivalry between ballet and modern dance, and it would take a long time, many years in fact, for the rivalry to calm down.(我认为这个评论家造成了在芭蕾和现代舞之间的一些过度竞争，而且需要很长时间（实际上是很多年），才能平息这种竞争。)

We will go back to normal when things calm down.(一切平息下来后，我们将恢复正常。)

Just try to calm down.(试着让自己平静下来！)

OK, let's calm down for several days.(好吧，我们冷静几天吧。)

verb

1. become quiet or less intensive

e.g. the fighting lulled for a moment

Synonym: lull

2. become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation

e.g. After the fight both men need to cool off.
It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.

Synonym: calmcool offchill outsimmer downsettle downcool it

3. make calm or still

e.g. quiet the dragons of worry and fear

Synonym: calmquiettranquilizetranquillizetranquillisequietenlullstill

1. (使)平静下来;(使)镇定下来
If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.

e.g. Calm down for a minute and listen to me...
你安静一会儿,听我说。
e.g. I'll try a herbal remedy to calm him down...
我来用草药试试,看能不能让他镇静下来。

2. (使)平定;平息
If things calm down, or someone or something calms things down, the amount of activity, trouble, or panic is reduced.

e.g. We will go back to normal when things calm down...
事态平息之后,我们将一切如常。
e.g. Neil Howorth, director of the academy, tried to calm things down.
研究院主任尼尔·豪沃思力图平息事态。