quietus 中文意思是什麼

quietus 解釋
n. 名詞 1. 死,滅亡;寂滅;死的解脫。
2. (債務,義務等的)償清,解除,理清;〈古語〉清欠收據。
3. 平息;制止。
4. 靜止狀態;休眠。

  1. I would thou couldst ; for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor s wrong, the proud man s contumely, the law s delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, in the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn in customary suits of solemn black, but that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, breathes forth contagion on the world, and thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i the adage, is sicklied o er with care, and all the clouds that lowered o er our housetops, with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action

    但願您做得到誰願忍受人世的鞭撻和嘲弄,壓迫者的虐待,傲慢者的凌辱,法律的拖延,和痛苦可能帶來的解脫,在這夜半死寂的荒涼里,墓穴洞開,禮俗的黑色喪服,一片陰森。但是那世人有去無還的冥界,正向人間噴出毒氣陣陣,因此那剛毅的本色,象古語所說的那隻可憐的小貓,就被煩惱蒙上了一層病容,一切壓在我們屋頂上的陰雲,因此改變了漂浮的方向,失去了行動的力量。那正是功德無量。
  2. But my father put the quietus on it. threatened to disown me

    但我父親不肯答應還威脅跟我脫離關系
  3. Spaniards, for instance, he continued, passionate temperaments like that, impetuous as old nick, are given to taking the law into their own hands and give you your quietus double quick with those poignards they carry in the abdomen

    「就拿西班牙人來說吧, 」他接下去說, 「他們容易感情用事,像魔鬼一樣急躁,動輒就用私刑,拔出下腹部所佩尖刀嗖的一下就清算你的一生131 。
  4. After a quietus of twenty years she returned

    她隱退二十年後又東山再起。
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