quiescence

基本解釋

This results in alternating periods of quiescence and activity - remarkably like the build-up and collapse of a sand pile.
這會導(dǎo)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證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棱兩可都令我不安。這種靜止，正是一場在極權(quán)體系和生活本身之間展開的隱秘戰(zhàn)爭的外在表現(xiàn)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？,“希望回到靜態(tài)的無機世界的愿望“
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

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