定居；安定下来；专心于

setting down───放下；记下；看做；确定

getting down───下来；吞下；使沮丧

letting down───下滑；松弛回火

settling on───选定；授与；停在

sitting down───坐下；扎营

whittling down───v.削减，削弱

beating down───倒伏

cutting down───研磨修整

melting down───熔化

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers.───不久之后，许多人开始安顿下来，当上了农场主。

Soon afterward, many of those people started to settling down to become farmers.───不久之后，许多人开始安顿下来，当上了农民。

city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in Alaska, they left Dawson City as quickly as they had come.───城里挤满了失望的人，他们没有兴趣安定下来。当他们听说在阿拉斯加有新的金矿时，他们像当初到来时一样迅速地离开了道森市。

Therefore, home-care for the disabled should be considered the best approach to settling down such a dilemma.───所以，残疾人的居家照顾也被认为是解决残疾人照顾问题的另一途径。

Whether it was through settling down in agricultural communities, all the way through modern medicine, we have changed our own evolution.───无论是通过经历农业社会，一直经历到现代医学社会，我们已经改变了我们的演变历程。

a sore arm; maybe a bit of a temperature overnight; and then settling down. Serious side effects of these vaccines are very uncommon.───胳膊酸痛；或许晚间体温升高；然后就会好了。这些疫苗的严重副作用非常少见。

Yes, the fall in residential investment has whacked the GDP figures, but the market seems to be settling down again.───住房投资的下降也的确沉重地打击了GDP数字，不过市场似乎再次安定下来。

Settling down and having kids was always part of Perry's plan, even back in the days when she wasn't sure she would be a tremendous success.───即使在过去她无从知晓自己是否能大红大紫的时候，安定下来、生宝宝这些事情也一直就在佩里的计划之中。

I started out with mixed feelings of fear and excitement, but settling down turned out to be far more challenging than I had expected.───刚开始，我觉得既害怕又兴奋，但为了在这里安顿下来所面临的挑战远远超出我的预想。

The horses are settling down and they're off!

Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.

He kicked around a good deal before settling down.

He kicked about a good deal before settling down.

The ship was settling down into the water.

Others, their duties finished, were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires.

That meant marrying, settling down, bringing up a family, thought Lily.

She is settling down well in her new job.

He tomcatted around before settling down.