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

• They say pastoralists should settle on farms and grow their own food, especially in times of shortages.
  他们说，牧民应该在农场定居，种植自己的粮食，特别是在短缺的时期。
• 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。
• Congressional and White House negotiators have to settle on sector-by-sector reductions.
  国会和白宫必须就各部门的债务削减达成一致意见。
• He helped me settle on which car to buy.
  他帮助我决定买哪一辆车。
• I can't even settle on a restaurant.
  我都不知道选哪家餐馆。
• So how long does it take to settle on an effective process?
  因此，确立一个有效的过程需要多长时间？
• Can we at least settle on a date for our next meeting?
  我们至少能决定下次会面的日期吗？
• They could not settle on where top spend the holiday.
  他们还决定不了到哪儿去度假。
• 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。
• 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。