核心畫面

You can picture a state where nothing is disturbing you — no noise, no fighting, no worry. Everything is quiet and still. 'Peaceful' describes anything that is in, or brings, that undisturbed state.

可以想成一種「沒有東西在打擾」的狀態:沒有吵鬧、沒有爭執、也沒有煩心的事,一切都安安靜靜、穩穩當當。peaceful更多收起可以想成一種「沒有東西在打擾」的狀態:沒有吵鬧、沒有爭執、也沒有煩心的事,一切都安安靜靜、穩穩當當。peaceful 就是用來形容處在這種狀態、或帶來這種狀態的人事物。

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沒有暴力與戰爭

同樣是「沒有衝突」,只是這裡的衝突指的是打鬥、動武。安靜的相反是吵鬧,這一組的相反則是流血與戰爭。

non-violent · adjective · B1

Not involving war, fighting, or violence.

和平的

Also in this word

calm, tranquil · adjective · B1

Quiet and calm, without noise, worry, or trouble.

寧靜的

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

peacefuladj詞源 1/ˈpiːsfl̩/

  • 1

    Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.

    • peaceful protest
    • Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
  • 2

    Inclined to peace.

  • 3

    Motionless and calm.

    • Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard.

peacefulnoun詞源 2

  • 1

    video-gamesA non-player character who is not hostile to the player.

    • You can trade with some of the peacefuls in the town area.
  • 2

    offensiveIslamlifestylereligiona Muslim; especially a violent member of a radical Islamist group.

    • They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。