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.
这会导致变换的静止和活动的周期-与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·林惇遇见我，我将毫不犹豫地一拳打倒他，在我待在那儿的时候保证给他足够的时间休息。
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
几乎每一天，这个社会一潭死水般的静止所蕴含的模棱两可都令我不安。这种静止，正是一场在极权体系和生活本身之间展开的隐秘战争的外在表现形式。

Kind of pleasant, I guess, right? " The desire to return to the quiescence of the organic world."
听起来还不错，不是吗？,“希望回到静态的无机世界的愿望“
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