quieten是什么意思

双语用例

• Until robots function as social beings (if ever they do), it is appropriate to give the user this power to unilaterally quieten the other participant.

• I hope that the murmurs of disapproval are now quietened and that we can proceed with an examination of this important matter.

• We have the vague impression that things have quietened down.

• He was given a pink slip to quieten him down because he was kicking up such a din in the polling station.

• We will run into extraordinary difficulties in quietening the demands of people who have slipped outside in this way.

• When public opinion is too restive to be quietened by indifference?

• It has been quietened down as being something which it is almost indecent to talk about—the future state of our country.

• Could you please either quieten down or go and have a coffee, and come back when we have finished discussing the important issues?