形容词
词源
源自法語 placide，源自拉丁語 placidus (“平静的，安稳的”)，源自placeō (“满足，取悦于”)。
读音
- /ˈplæs.ɪd/
释义
平静的，平稳的，平和的
a placid disposition
平稳的性格
a placid lake
平静的湖
April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 9, in Jane Eyre, HTML edition:The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224:[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
词形与写法（2）
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|---|---|
| placider | comparative | |
| placidest | superlative |