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  1. 冷静下来

    idiomatic · intransitive

    "Silence! Now ye had better go slow, my good fellow. This is two or three times you've tried to get off some of your insolence. Lip won't do here. You've got to simmer down."

    1870, Mark Twain, "Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again," letter 4:

    The agitation, thus deprived of its chief hope, might very well have been expected to simmer down, to die away slowly.

    1910, Stewart Edward White, The Rules of the Game, ch. 73:

    Although the street demonstrations have simmered down, protests have continued in other forms.

    2003 June 30, Nazila Fathi, "British Minister Presses Iran To Allow Nuclear Inspections," New York Times (retrieved 9 Apr 2009):
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simmers downthird-person · singular · present
simmering downpresent · participle
simmered downpast · participle · 簡單過去時
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