词源

源自法語 ，源自拉丁語 (“平静的，安稳的”)，源自 (“满足，取悦于”)。

发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈplæs.ɪd/

• （美国）音频：

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• 韻部：-æsɪd

形容词

(比較級，最高級)

1. 平静的，平稳的，平和的

   a placid disposition

   平稳的性格

   a placid lake

   平静的湖

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, 章號 9, 出自 Jane Eyre‎, HTML版:

     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.

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   • 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, 出自 The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company，頁號 224:

     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?

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   • 2014 10月 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]”, 出自 (Sport)‎:

     [I]n the 575 days since shot dead his girlfriend , there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

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词源

借自法語 。

形容词

 m 或 n (陰性單數，陽性複數，陰性和中性複數)

1. 平静的，平稳的，平和的