Stillness
['stɪlnɪs] or ['stɪlnəs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
(n.) Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
哈利整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I could understand the stillness in the house and the thoughtfulness it expressed on the part of all those who had always been so good to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that we were in the country. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- As the smoke cleared, leaving an awful stillness, it passed out on the air, like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Everybody was hushed into a profound stillness as the individual addressed, replied-- 'Sir! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Behind November came deep winter--clearness, stillness, frost accompanying. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The air was warm with a vaporous warmth, and the stillness was unbroken. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They were soft, blind kisses, perfect in their stillness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Such was the stillness of the evening to Eugene Wrayburn, as he walked by the river with his hands behind him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He lingered on in perfect stillness till he began to fancy that the midnight hour must have struck. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- From within the city neither shout nor cry, nor aught except the casual howling of a dog, broke the noon-day stillness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When they were silent again, nothing stirred in the stillness but the bubble and the crackle of the flames. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Perfect stillness ensued--not a rustle--not a breath--Guilty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
整理:莫尼卡