詞彙精選：settle的用法和辨析大綱
一、詳細釋義：
v.
（使）定居，安定 [I,T]
例句：
When are you going to marry and settle down?
你什麼時候結婚過上安定生活？
例句：
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion.
讓我們安定下來工作，踏過輿論的污泥濁水。
解決；安排 [I,T]
例句：
I was willing to settle my grudge with harrison.
我原意解決我和哈里森的怨恨。
例句：
New moves to settle the disagreement between the workers and employers have ended in failure.
爲解決勞資糾紛所採取的新措施已告失敗。
沉澱；下陷 [I,T]
例句：
A black dust settled on the walls.
牆上落了一層黑色的粉塵。
例句：
Once its impurities had settled, the oil could be graded.
一旦雜質沉澱下去，油就可以分級了。
二、詞義辨析：
decide,determine,resolve,settle
這些動詞都含“決定”之意。decide側重指經過思考、比較、討論或詢問之後做出的決定。determine指經過深思熟慮，決心去做某事並堅持施行。resolve語氣較強，強調以堅定不移的信念去做或不做某事，暗含有遠大抱負和堅強決心。settle指排除猶豫、懷疑和爭論之後作出明確的最終結論。
三、詞義辨析：
dwell,reside,live,lodge,inhabit,settle
這些動詞均有“居住、定居”之意。dwell文學上的用詞，口語中通常用live代替。reside書面用詞，指合法的永久性居住，也指在豪華的住宅里居住。live最普通用詞，指固定的居住，可以是長期的，也可以是臨時的。lodge指短時間或臨時住宿。inhabit強調人或動物居住在某個地區並已適應某種特殊環境。settle側重指某人定居於城市、國家或地區，而不指居住的住所。
四、相關短語：
settle down
v.1.定居，平靜下來2.專心於
settle on
在…安家;選定,決定,同意
一、參考例句：
Please settle your account immediately.
請立刻結清你的欠帳。
Alum will settle turbid water.
明礬可以澄清濁水。
They settle for second best.
不爭第一。
You must settle the matter among yourselves.
你們必須自己商量解決這件事。
Did the tar settle on the road?
路上的柏油乾硬了嗎？
Let's settle down to studies.
讓我們安下心來讀書。
I would adore to settle back homeland.
我非常喜歡回家鄉定居.
It can help your mind settle down.
這能讓你能心靜下來。
I can't settle down to anything at present.
目前，我做什麼都安不下心來。
When are you going to marry and settle down?
你什麼時候結婚過上安定生活？
