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1、settle down
(尤指結婚或買房后)定居，安頓下來
One day I'll want to settle down and have a family.
總有一天，我會想安定下來，成個家。
Before she settled down in Portugal, she had run her own antiques shop in London.
在定居葡萄牙之前，她在倫敦經營一家自己的古董店。
(歷經磨難或變化后)安靜下來，平靜下來
It'd be fun, after the situation in Europe settles down, to take a trip over to France.
等歐洲的局勢平定下來后，去法國旅行一趟應該不錯。
We saw the therapist four times, and the children have now settled down.
我們去看了四次治療專家，現在孩子們已經穩定下來了。
集中精力做;開始認真做
He got his coffee, came back and settled down to listen.
他喝了杯咖啡，回來后開始認真聽講。
They settled down to some serious work.
他們著手做一些重要的工作。
2、pregnant
懷孕的；妊娠的
Lena got pregnant and married.
莉娜懷孕并結婚了。
Tina was pregnant with their first daughter.
蒂娜懷了他們的第一個女兒。
耐人尋味的；意味深長的；心照不宣的
There was a long, pregnant silence.
當時出現了長時間耐人尋味的沉默。
a deceptive peace, pregnant with invisible threats.
一種和平的假象，潛伏著許多無形的威脅
