The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better and helps them to calm down before a flight.

乘客们经常说，看到动物让他们感觉好多了，这可以帮助他们在飞行前冷静下来。

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For one thing, I firmly believe that reading can increase our knowledge. For another, reading helps us to calm down when we feel upset.

首先，我坚信阅读能增加我们的知识。另一方面，当我们感到沮丧时，阅读帮助我们平静下来。

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He just needs to calm down a wee bit.

他只是需要稍微冷静一点。

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Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, a Democrat, had his hands full trying to calm down a man in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who was angry about being denied a chance to ask a question.

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Now, we get to draw some lessons out of this thing, so everybody who's feeling a little bit shell shocked from having been doing algebra and calculus and drawing pictures and feeling like they've been cheated into taking a class that looks far too much like economics, calm down we're going to actually talk right now.

下面我们从中总结点经验出来,那些因为代数和微积分计算还有绘图,而感到十分不爽的同学,你们是不是感觉被我忽悠了,才会选这门一点都不像经济学的课啊,稍安勿躁,我们马上切入正题

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"Our concern,clearly, was that tensions were heating up and that they need to calm down, and that indeed these tensions were diverting the government of Pakistan away from its principle enemies - al-Qaida and the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Things began to calm down, funnily enough, right after Benitez finally lost his temper.

WSJ: Rafa Benitez Era at English Soccer's Chelsea a Mixed Bag

Whenever he started to calm down, he would look toward the car and break into wails.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Operation Homecoming'

Now we need to get the seas to calm down to be order to do that.

WHITEHOUSE: Aboard Air Force One En Route Andrews Air Force Base