| 单词 | placid |
| 释义 | placid (plæsɪd ) 1. adjective A placid person or animal is calm and does not easily become excited, angry, or upset. She was a placid child who rarely cried. Marcus remained placid in the face of her outburst. Synonyms: calm, cool, quiet, peaceful placidly adverb [ADVERB with verb] 'No matter, we will pay the difference,' Helena said placidly. The cow in the nearby field was still chewing placidly on its cud. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A placid place, area of water, or life is calm and peaceful. ...the placid waters of Lake Erie. He had been leading a placid life for the past eight years. Synonyms: still, quiet, calm, peaceful Collocations: placid surface But this was a perfectly placid surface, so the constant coming and going calls for some explanation. Times, Sunday Times The frantic rewritings here revealed beneath the placid surface of the finished item tend to bear him out. The Times Literary Supplement He seems to have honed his image as obsessively as he honed his prose, working very hard beneath the placid surface. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 温和的 Japanese: 穏やかな |
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