But she found it impossible to settle down.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Part of it is, it takes me an hour and half to settle myself down enough, that I'm actually paying attention and, be more aware of what happening.

每一次，都需要一个半小时,来让我的头脑镇静下来，然后我才能真正地集中注意，感受身边发生的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Just come in and settle down, because it's very hard to lecture with this amount of traffic.

进来以后就赶紧坐下来,你们这样乱糟糟的我讲不下去

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选