- 1靜止的、休眠的（暫時不活動，並非就此結束）
Quiescent means not developing and not doing anything just now — but only for a time. A volcano can be quiescent for twenty years and still not be dead. A disease can lie quiescent, then return. A cell, a political movement, even a bank account can be called quiescent when it is still there, only quiet in its work. The word is formal and scientific; you will meet it in textbooks and careful news, not in the playground. It sits next to quiet in the family, though actually it is not about noise. A quiescent volcano is not “a volcano that makes no sound”; it is a volcano that is not . The important extra is the “for now”: sleeping, paused, waiting, not finished and not gone. If something is over forever, we do not reach for this word.
組成A learned borrowing from Latin quiescens, quiescentem — “resting,” from a verb meaning to rest or be still. That is why the word feels like a classroom word, not a home word.
同家族的字
- quietsame Latin root for rest and stillness, though quiet is about noise and calm in daily talk
- quiescencethe noun: the state of being quiescent
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。
quiescentadj/kwaɪˈɛsənt/
- 1
Inactive, quiet, at rest.
- The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
- In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.
- 2
communicationsjournalismliteratureNot sounded; silent.
- The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".
- 3
biologycytologymedicineNon-proliferating.
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