One way to hold this word is to picture two hands held out level with each other. Something was hanging between two people — money, a favour, an argument — and now it has been evened out, so nothing is left hanging. Nobody has to do anything more. From there it is a short step: if there is nothing left to settle, there is nothing left to carry on with either, and the same word turns up when someone decides that a piece of work, a job, or a band has gone far enough and stops.
這個字可以想成兩隻手平平地伸出來，高度一樣。本來兩個人之間有東西懸著——欠的錢、沒還的人情、吵到一半的架——現在被抹平了，沒有東西再掛著。誰都不必再做什麼。從這裡再走一小步就到了另一個用法：既然沒有什麼要了結的，也就沒有什麼要繼續的；所以當一件工作、一份職業或一個樂團走到夠了的時候，英文也用同一個字說停。
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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。
quitsadj詞源 1/kwɪts/
- 1
On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
- Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right?
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。