be still

基本解释

Can he be still thinking of it I told him ?
他会不会还在考虑我告诉他的那件事呢？
This is impossible, I thought. There's no time to be still and to know that God is with me.
我想，看来是不可能达到宁静的状态了，那就意味着我没有时间去和上帝交流。
I quickly tried once again to settle down, repeating the familiar verse in my mind. Be still and know that I am God.
我又一次快速的安静下来，重复脑子里熟悉的诗篇：保持平静，告诉自己我就是上帝。

And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws til Max said "BE STILL!"
Yes and no. It was fascinating to be as Wordsworth says, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" -to be around in those days, but at the same time I think it's rather advantageous for us to be still "in theory."
可以说会，也可以说不会,正如华兹华斯所说，“能活在那黎明时光是何等幸福“,虽然过去对人有很大吸引力，但同时我们还是,只在理论层面研究比较好“
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You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.
大家应该发现，当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时，他们完全理解了文学评论体系，这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌，还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。
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Their main ambition for the time being is to be still standing when the dust settles.
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