settle on

英 [ˈsetl ɒn]

美 [ˈsetl ɑːn]

选择; 选定

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 选择;选定
  If yousettle ona particular thing, you choose it after considering other possible choices.
  1. I finally settled on a Mercedes estate.
     我最后决定买一辆梅塞德斯客货两用车。

英英释义

verb

• become fixed (on)
  1. Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon
  Synonym:fixate

双语例句

• Try to settle on a time when the job will be done.
  尝试解决一个时间作业时，将得到伸张。
• Instead we settle on becoming creatures of habit.
  我们决定成为了习惯动物。
• The child may have trouble achieving any sense of stability at all, or he may settle on behaviors that enable him to maintain a sense of order at the cost of further development.
  儿童可能具有获得任何稳定感觉的困难，或者他可能使用行为处理，以使他能够维持某种秩序感，这是未来发展所必需的。
• That is why the eurozone must settle on a balanced package, not excessive reliance on structural reforms.
  这就是欧元区必须拿出一套平衡的方案（不过度依赖于结构性改革）的原因。
• These particles settle on the ground and in the water and are eventually eaten by microscopic organisms.
  这些粒子再附着到地面上和水中，最终被微生物吞食。
• It would also be unlikely for him to settle on an image of a weirwood.
  而且他也不大可能使用鱼梁木图像。
• You must stop juggling the bus-times around and settle on a fixed timetable.
  你们得把公共汽车的时间表固定下来，不要老是把行车时间变来变去。
• We must settle on a place to meet.
  我们必须选个地方见面。
• I settle on a banquette in the glass-enclosed "no smoking" bunker and order a coffee.
  我在由玻璃围起来的“无烟区”包房里的沙发长椅上坐下，点了一杯咖啡。
• But it will not be bored to the study of philosophical discussion of the day special theory of relativity or the human ability to settle on Mars and be too worried.
  但也不会无聊到整天研究哲学讨论狭义相对论或人类能否移居火星而过分担忧。