tranquillity

參見：Tranquillity

英語

其他形式

• tranquility

詞源

源自 tranquil +‎ -ity，繼承自中古英語 tranquillite，源自古法語 tranquillite、tranquilité，源自拉丁語 tranquillitas。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /tɹæŋˈkwɪl.ɪ.ti/

  • 音頻 (美國)：

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• 斷字：tran‧quil‧li‧ty

名詞

tranquillity (通常不可數，複數 tranquillities)

1. 寧靜，平靜

   近義詞：calm, peace, stillth

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Hertingfordbury:

     Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

用法說明

• 英國常用 tranquillity 的拼寫，美國則常用 tranquility。

相關詞彙

• tranquil
• tranquilize
• tranquillize
• tranquilly
• tranquilness

延伸閱讀

• “tranquillity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tranquillity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.