(1)settle down　平静下来；定居下来

　　settle down to (doing) sth.

　　　　　　　 定下心去做......；专心做......

　　settle on 决定

　　(2)settler n. 移居者，定居者；调停者

　　settlement n. 解决，协议

　　⑥Have you settled on a name for the baby yet?

　　你给孩子取好名字没有？

　　⑦It always takes the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson.

　　那个班一上课总得过一会儿才能安静下来。

　　3．I've been skiing quite a few times, but never with the school, and since two good friends came on the trip, we had great fun racing each other down the ski slopes.(P17)

　　我以前滑过好多次雪，但从来没有和同学一起去过。我的两个好朋友也一起去了，我们比赛着冲下雪坡，实在痛快。

　　★have fun玩得开心

　　①You'll have a lot of fun at the party tonight.

　　你会在今晚的聚会上玩得很开心的。

　　have fun doing sth./with sth.　做某事很开心

　　make fun of sb. 开某人的玩笑

　　for fun 为了娱乐

　　What fun (it is) to do sth.! 做某事多么有趣啊！

　　②The children had a lot of fun with the building blocks.

　　孩子们玩积木玩得很开心。

　　③It's cruel to make fun of people who stammer.

　　嘲笑口吃的人是很不人道的。

　　④This is not a match. We're playing chess just for fun．

这不是比赛，我们下象棋仅仅是为了好玩而已。