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单词 equanimity
释义
equanimityeq‧ua‧nim‧i‧ty /ˌiːkwəˈnɪməti, ˌekwə-/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINequanimity
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin aequanimitas, from aequo animo ‘with level mind’
Examples
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  • He had a kind of gentleness and equanimity.
  • Hess, however, took it with equanimity, and laughed at Edward's own unease.
  • His parents took the news with equanimity.
  • In time, she attained, if not virtue, a modicum of equanimity.
  • Jennifer explains this with an equanimity that characterises her.
  • Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim, that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself.
  • She supposed it gave him his equanimity.
  • This apparent equanimity, however, is belied by evidence that health and health care are major concerns of older people.
formal calmness in the way that you react to things, which means that you do not become upset or annoyed:  He received the news with surprising equanimity.
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