quietness

1 Even with that, Presser was so scared that he fled to Florida and moved from hotel to hotel till the gang war quieted down, with his side on top.

2 She went on, boasting of her quietness, yet speaking with a kind of contained exaltation.

她滔滔不绝地说着.她自诩很平静,她的口气却包含着一种强自抑制的兴奋情绪.

3 My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence.

4 I do very much appreciate the quietness and privacy here.

我的确非常喜欢这里宁静幽雅、不受打扰的氛围。

5 He cried and his shrill tone troke the quietness, but the ship still left.

他尖锐的音调划破了宁静，船还是离开了。

6 The quietness lasted for a while, and for some reason I began to tell her my dream.

7 The lighting, the girl’s simple, perhaps reverential pose, the audible sense of quietness in the image — everything here seems to be just what it is.

8 After the storm, quietness reigned.

风暴过后是一片寂静.

9 He imagined quietness, delicacy, the kind of woman whose sneeze, whose laugh and talk, would be soft as the under feathers closest to a chicken’s skin.

10 “I could almost hear the quietness in this photograph, a quiet moment of global reckoning for the history of colonization, not only in Canada but around the world.”

11 If you are invited to a second meeting, perhaps at Hardy’s home, lying low behind thick hedges, you are struck by the stodginess of the food, the quietness of your host.

12 Its quietness could also change the planning of airports in cities; maybe Heathrow could be expanded after all, rather than relocated at colossal financial and environmental expense to the Kent marshes.

13 lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed

14 Ms. la Flamme, the sex coach, said she has done kambo nine times this year, and now feels a “lightness and peace, a quietness in my soul.”

15 But there's also a tenderness and a quietness - things that might have been in the music before but have now deepened.

16 Its drama lay in its lack of drama, in its quietness, in the courtesies we felt impelled to extend to one another.

17 It was in all her aspect, quiet with a dreadful quietness, as she moved down the aisle behind his mother and knelt for a moment beside his mother and father to pray.

18 Mr. Nichols’s most distinct aesthetic choice is the movie’s quietness and the hush that envelops its first scene and that eventually defines the Lovings as much as their accents, gestures, manners and battles.

19 It gives me a quietness, slightly more space.

20 I insist on quietness.

我坚持要安静。

1 朴素

simple soft quiet severe plain conservative modest primitive rustic sober frugal somber homely unadorned homespun Lenten up-country Quakerish quietly plainly conservatively chastely simplicity severity modesty homeliness austereness severeness in a small way

2 镇定

contrastimulant calm steady collected settled composed unflappable recollected recollectedly containedly recollectedness imperturbation poise equanimity settling pacification imperturbability sangfroid assuagement equability settle compose sober soothe assuage pacify compose oneself keep head presence of mind

3 宁静

quiet calm peaceful sleepy serene peacefully peace serenity stillness calmness sleepiness peacefulness quietude restfulness

4 平静

surgeless even still smooth quiet calm peaceful tranquil serene lucid restful undisturbed sedate peaceable halcyon unperturbed windless equable reposed reposeful breezeless unvexed quietly peacefully calmly blandly equably tranquilly pacifically restfully undisturbedly balance temper poise equilibrium serenity tranquility repose calmness subsidence equanimity peacefulness lucidity evenness blandness quietude quietism placidity placidness equability ataraxy rest mitigate recompose tranquilize smoothen level placid pacific glassy emollient untroubled unruffled well steadily serenely placidly stillness tranquillity lull hush tranquillize quieten down calm down

5 安静

still quiet peaceful restful undisturbed placid hushed whist reposedly serenely SO tranquilness rest peace repose hush stillness calmness quietude noiselessness button belt lay settle compose tranquilize come to order

6 低声

undertone

7 寂静

still quiet silent soundless stilly slumberous stirless stirlessly quietly silently noiselessly stirlessness silence quietude hushed hush

8 文静

quiet