quiescence

基本解释

This results in alternating periods of quiescence and activity - remarkably like the build-up and collapse of a sand pile.
這會導致變換的靜止和活動的周期-與沙堆的堆砌和崩塌非常相像。
If Edgar Linton meets me, I shall not hesitate to knock him down, and give him enough to insure his quiescence while I stay.
如果埃德加·林惇遇見我，我將毫不猶豫地一拳打倒他，在我待在那兒的時候保証給他足夠的時間休息。
Almost every day I am struck by the ambiguity of this social quiescence, which is the visible expression of an invisible war between the totalitarian system and life itself
幾乎每一天，這個社會一潭死水般的靜止所蘊含的模稜兩可都令我不安。這種靜止，正是一場在極權躰系和生活本身之間展開的隱秘戰爭的外在表現形式。

Kind of pleasant, I guess, right? " The desire to return to the quiescence of the organic world."
聽起來還不錯，不是嗎？,“希望廻到靜態的無機世界的願望“
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