• vt. 平息；鎮(zhèn)壓；減輕；消除
• n. (Quell)人名；(捷)奎爾；(西)克利

來自古英語cwellan,殺死，謀殺，執(zhí)行死刑，來自PIE*gwele,扔，投擲，詞源同ballistic,kill. 詞義由扔，投擲引申為刺，殺。后引申詞義制止，阻止。

quell

quell: [OE] Quell and kill are probably closely related – indeed, in Old and Middle English quell was used for ‘kill’ (‘birds and small beasts with his bow he quells’, William of Palerne 1350). Quell goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *kwaljan (source also of German qu?len ‘torture’), which may have had a variant *kuljan, that could have produced English kill. The milder modern sense of quell developed in the 14th century.

quell (v.)

Old English cwellan "to kill, murder, execute," from Proto-Germanic *kwaljanan (cognates: Old English cwelan "to die," cwalu "violent death;" Old Saxon quellian "to torture, kill;" Old Norse kvelja "to torment;" Middle Dutch quelen "to vex, tease, torment;" Old High German quellan "to suffer pain," German qu?len "to torment, torture"), from PIE root *gwele- (1) "to throw, reach," with extended sense of "to pierce" (cognates: Armenian kelem "I torture;" Old Church Slavonic zali "pain;" Lithuanian galas "end," gela "agony," gelti "to sting;" see ballistics). Milder sense of "suppress, extinguish" developed by c. 1300. Related: Quelled; quelling.

1. He is unlikely to send in the army to quell nationalist aspirations.

他不可能派兵去扼殺民族主義理想。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Extra police were called in to quell the disturbances.

已調(diào)集了增援警力來平定騷亂。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. Soldiers were sent in to quell the riots.

士兵們被派去平息騷亂.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Troops were called in to quell the violence.

部隊被調(diào)來平息暴力事件.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Aspirin will quell your headache.

阿斯匹林將止住你的頭疼.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》