The sea was as calm as a millpond.

海上风平浪静。

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Playing a recording of pop music may calm a dog.

播放流行音乐的录音可以使狗平静下来。

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How to Calm a Pet During a move?

在搬家的过程中如何让宠物平静下来？

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In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.

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The question of providential justice is of course of primary significance to Milton's poem, but Hartman goes on to say that the moon, which reminds us of a calm and perfect sense of Providence, also works to guarantee the principal of free will.

这里，关于天佑的公平的问题,是其对于弥尔顿的诗最基本的重要性，但是哈特曼接着又说月亮是，这提醒了我们天意的冷静和完美感，月亮在这儿也是为了保障自由意志的原则。

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I hope you've gotten something out of this on a way to increase calm, equanimity and connection to the world around you.

希望你从中能有所得,能变得更平和，更镇定,增强与周围世界的联系。

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It would have involved manipulating mass psychology to calm a hysterical economy at a very low price, namely zero.

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Earlier research at Imperial College London showed that injections of psilocybin could calm a region of the brain which is overactive in depression.

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Anyone brave enough to delve into its spells may learn how to use magic to manufacture fake gold, calm a wild horse or ripen a melon.

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