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settled

/set-ld/US // ˈsɛt ld //

固定的,稳定的,安定的,安定下来的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : fixed or established; unlikely to change: Like most of us, he has settled habits and opinions.
    • : agreed upon; decided: the rules of settled grammatical usage.
    • : having inhabitants or settlers:settled regions of the country.
    • : having a permanent residence; not wandering:In time the Israelites became a settled people.

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Examples

  • If you’re navigating a site move, I hope you feel more settled than I do with my house move, right now.

  • I very much doubt that most scientists in the UK have a settled view on whether pub gardens or universities campuses should be closed or not.

  • He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

  • Afraid the Korean secret police would not believe his kidnapping story, Shin settled in Hollywood.

  • His latest target has been Hajji Hassan, a Baluch drug lord who fled Iran and settled in Turbat in 2000.

  • As a producer on The Gambler, he read a bunch of women for the female lead, and settled on Larson.

  • I just happen to believe it was settled in a different way than Beck does.

  • In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

  • But hitherto, before these new ideas began to spread in our community, the mass of men and women definitely settled down.

  • Thus night fell, and darkness settled down about him, relieved only by the red glow of the logs smouldering on the hearth.

  • The next year he sailed from England with two hundred persons and settled in his new possessions.

  • Old feuds were settled in the old way and six inches of steel were more potent than the longest Order in Council.