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quiescent (kwee ESS ent) A good synonym for this word is “quiet,” not in the sense of “not noisy” but in the sense of “peaceful” or “at rest.” The noun form is “quiescence.”

  • Many of the shops in the mall have big sales in February to drum up business in the quiescent period after the Christmas rush.
  • Samuel Johnson, the eighteenth-century writer and lexicographer, said: “Great abilities are not requisite for an historian; for in historical composi-tion, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention.”

——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》

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静止的(kwee ESS ent)这个词的一个好的同义词是“安静”,不是“不吵”的意思,而是“平静”或“休息”的意思。名词形式是“静止”
商场里的许多商店在2月份都有大减价,以在圣诞节高峰后的平静时期招揽生意。
18世纪的作家和词典编纂者塞缪尔·约翰逊说:“历史学家不需要有高超的能力;因为在历史写作中,人类头脑中所有最大的力量都是静止的。他手头有事实,所以没有发明。”

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