Placidity

(noun.) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling.

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• Miss Pross inquired, with placidity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• An exhausted composure, a worn-out placidity, an equanimity of fatigue not to be ruffled by interest or satisfaction, are the trophies of her victory. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He had a great red pipe in his mouth, and was smoking, and staring at the rush-light, in a state of enviable placidity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Her nature, in spite of her apparent placidity and calm, was profoundly restless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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