The president is trying to smooth things over.

这位总统正试图把大事化小。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

She spoke to both sides in the dispute in an attempt to smooth things over.

她和争执双方谈话，试图进行调解。

《牛津词典》

You might expect politicians to smooth things out when civil servants are being dilatory.

当公务员办事拖拉时，你可能期望政治家们能够把事情顺利解决。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I wanna smooth things over.

我希望缓和一下。

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So if there's any systematic bias going on in the way these things get graded it'll smooth itself out across the teaching fellows, so we'll have a fair grading system and things.

所以,如果在评分过程中,有任何系统性误差,都会由助教们尽量纠正过来,这样就有了公平的评分系统

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However, Apple has struggled to adapt to 3G, releasing new software last month to help smooth things out.

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Mr Brown would spend his visit trying to "smooth things over" with his party's biggest political backers, he added.

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It says Tokyo was just "trying to smooth things over" by insisting that the Post had misquoted Mr Abe last week.

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