及物动词
1. The police had been called in to quell a minor disturbance.
警察奉命出动以平息一场小规模的骚乱。
2. Aspirin will quell your headache.
阿斯匹林将止住你的头疼。
1. 平息：警方(police)试图用催泪弹(tear gas)、水枪(water hose)、装甲车辆(armored vehicle)及路障(roadblock)来平息(quell)暴乱. 一般认为暴乱的起因(cause)是6月25日南方某地两名维族工人被汉族同事(co-worker)杀害.
2. 镇压：科学提倡怀疑精神,宗教信仰镇压(quell)怀疑精神,你对此认可多少?法国的中学毕业会考(Bac)的第一门考试是哲学作文. 说是哲学,其实是也涉及美学、社会学,很像中国高考的命题作文,考生要在四个小时内写出一篇像模像样的论文来. 文学、经济社会、科学类毕业生可以分别在下列三个题目中任选一个:
3. 镇压,平息：quash镇压,粉碎 | quell镇压,平息 | reduced a penalty减刑
4. 压制：purge#洗清 | quell#压制 | quibble#模棱两可地说
1. 压制;消除;镇压;平息
To quell opposition or violent behaviour means to stop it.
e.g. Troops eventually quelled the unrest.
军队最终平息了动乱。
2. 消除，祛除(害怕、愤怒等)
If you quell an unpleasant feeling such as fear or anger, you stop yourself or other people from having that feeling.
e.g. The Information Minister is trying to quell fears of a looming oil crisis.
新闻部长正努力消除民众对一触即发的石油危机的恐惧。
1. But analysts said the measures were merely palliative, buying time for Europe to come up with more concrete measures to quell the crisis.
2. quell的解释
2. Last week Blair was forced to concede he will leave office within a year to quell a rebellion in his Labour Party.
3. quell
3. The force was deployed to quell the outbreak of violence between the two Cypriot groups in 1964.
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4. The downgrade was likely to hamper efforts of eurozone policymakers to quell investors's fears and may deepen falls in the price of French banking shares.
5. Rescuers are working in shifts to dig tunnels near the main pit and pipe in inert gas to quell the fire.
6. Islamabad rejects the charge and says the Afghan government is trying to divert attention from its own failure to quell the Taliban insurgency.
7. " This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now, " he said in a statement.
8. A statement from Blair's 10 Downing Street office that reports of the top aide's imminent departure were " wishful thinking " did little to quell speculation.
9. quell的意思
9. Estimated to cost more than $ 2 billion in the first year, the operation is an effort to quell violence in Sudan's western region.
10. If the regulators find that investors'fears about excessive refinancing by listed companies are genuine, they must act to quell these fears.
verb
1. suppress or crush completely
e.g. squelch any sign of dissent
quench a rebellion
2. overcome or allay
e.g. quell my hunger