他叫我一、两天内别回来，等喧嚣和动乱平息下来再说。 He asked me not to come back for a day or two until the noise and commotion had settled down.
艰难时期；动乱时代 Hard times; a time of troubles.
英国人在任何动乱的年代都要重温战争时期的日子，那时人们都友好互助。 In any troubled times, the British tend to hark back to wartime days, when people helped each other in a friendly spirit.
在那个国家里，我们的业务一直开展得很顺利。后来那里发生了政治动乱，我们才被迫停业离开。 Our business in that country was doing very well until the political troubles brought us up short and we had to leave.