- 1不安；心神不寧
Disquiet is a worried, feeling about something — not loud panic, but a restlessness that will not sit still. You may feel disquiet when the news is bad, when a plan looks wrong, or when people around you are not being straight. News writers like the noun: “public disquiet” means many people are , even if they are not in the street shouting. The word is rather formal. In everyday talk, people say they feel , anxious, or “not right about this”. Though actually, the same word also works as a verb: something can disquiet you, meaning it takes away your calm. The adjective disquiet exists too, but disquieting (for the thing that causes the feeling) is the form you will meet more often.
組成dis- (not / the opposite of) + quiet (calm, at rest).
同家族的字
- quietthe calm that dis- takes away
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disquietnoun/dɪsˈkwaɪ.ɪt/
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Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind
- My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.
- Every house has its skeleton in it somewhere, and it may be a comfort to some unhappy folks to think that the luckier and most wealthy of their neighbours have their miseries and causes of disquiet.
disquietadj/dɪsˈkwaɪ.ɪt/
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obsoleteDeprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
- I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented.
- How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their deſire? but are ſtill at ſome jar with their preſent condition, ſo that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ſome lot, which they apprehend more ſatiſfying than their own, the want whereof turns them more diſquiet than all their enjoyments are pleaſing; […]
disquietverb/dɪsˈkwaɪ.ɪt/
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To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.
- He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown.
- They have been brought up religiouſly, and have been accuſtomed to read, and pray; and if at any time they do neglect and omit these duties, conſcience is upon them and upbraids and diſquiets them; and they are afraid to neglect them, leſt conſcience will queſtion and trouble them.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。