解释
- n. 解除；偿清；生命的终止；寂灭
※ 提供单词"quietus"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
quietus 寂灭，解脱
来自quiet,安静的，静止的，-us,名词后缀。委婉语，即安静或平和的死去。
英文词源
- quietus (n.)
- "discharge, clearing of accounts," 1530s, short for Medieval Latin phrase quietus est "he is quit" (see quit). Hence, "death" (i.e. "final discharge"), c. 1600. Latin quies also was used for "the peace of death."
例句和用法
- 1. After a quietus of twenty years she returned.
- 她隐退二十年后又东山再起.
- 2. The plan has finally got its quietus, ie been abandoned.
- 这一计画终于胎死腹中(遭放弃).
- 3. The police gave the villain his quietus.
- 警察结果了那坏蛋的性命.
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