| 词汇 | quell |
| 释义 | quell verb[ T ] uk /kwel/ us /kwel/ to stop something, especially by using force: （尤指通过武力）制止，平息;镇压 Police in riot gear were called in to quell the disturbances/unrest.身着防暴服的警察被召来平息骚乱。 This latest setback will have done nothing to quell the growing doubts about the future of the club.最近这次挫折对消除人们对俱乐部前景与日俱增的疑虑没有一点好处。 Causing something to end abandon abandonment all good things (must) come to an endidiom and have done with itidiom be over the humpidiom cure give over halt hang jack something in kill something stone-deadidiom lay lid lift snap stamp on something stamp something out stanch staunch stem quell | American Dictionaryquell verb[ T ] us/kwel/ to completely stop or end something: The police were called in to quell the riot. If you quell doubts, fears, etc., you calm them: He’s been unable to quell his wife’s suspicions. Examples of quellquell In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate. When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups? The tie vote, however, did not quell agitation for greater specification of the national legislature's powers. In the absence of physical freedom children would break out and run wild within the main play room until quelled by staff. They like learning to assess the environment from the patient's experience of it, and with that knowledge they can quell disturbances. Nature's truths are so alien to our habits that we must quell our habitual practices of thought in order to recognize and represent nature's reality. Their irrationality, their propensity to violence and their inherent fanaticism required that collective action be promptly and decisively quelled. Their commitment within the framework of the conference extended to a temporary exchange arrangement to quell currency fluctuations and no more. But they were quelled and if not quelled, replaced. The disturbance was quelled by the police with army reinforcements, but clearly the potential for further violence remains. Nixon's 1969 "silent majority" speech was effective in temporarily quelling the antiwar movement. Whether founded or not, such defenses probably did more to perpetuate the anxiety of influence than to quell it. Throughout the 1870s, the condition of the kingdom deteriorated, as food shortages and inflation incited popular revolts and a crime wave of dacoity which the authorities proved powerless to quell. Civil society, led by students and labour, fought in the streets to quell the 1959 military coup. Cognitive norms that are too restrictive turn the subject into a little tyrant who quells in advance the slightest hint of rebellion on the part of the object studied. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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