Quiescence

(noun.) quiet and inactive restfulness.

校对:凯特

• He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To that quite as much as to the amelioration of things by a diffused prosperity, this phase of quiescence among the lower classes is to be ascribed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• During the first century there was an air of quiescence over the great plains, but population was accumulating and the tribes were fermenting. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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