| 词组 | peaceable, peaceful |
| 释义 | peaceable, peaceful Several commentators note a distinction between these words, the upshot of which is that peaceable means "disposed toward peace; preferring peace" and peaceful means "characterized by peace." Those are in fact the usual meanings of peaceable and peaceful in current English: • But if labor's leaders were feeling peaceable toward the administration, it was the best-kept secret in town —Meg Greenfield, The Reporter, 2 June 1966 • ... would always have been as peaceful as a church social —John Kenneth Galbraith, Saturday Rev., 6 Nov. 1971 However, peaceable and peaceful can also be properly used as synonyms, and they have been since the 14th century. The "characterized by peace" sense of peaceable and the "disposed toward peace" sense of peaceful are now relatively uncommon, but they are still standard, as a look in any good dictionary will show. Here are a few examples of their use, recent and not so recent: • ... that through orderly, peaceable processes ... change would come —Center Mag., November/ December 1971 • ... assigned to a ladder company in remote and peaceable Staten Island —Tom Buckley, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 3 Oct. 1976 • Congo natives are peaceful, and the drums often mean an invitation to a dance —Wallace W. Atwood & Helen Goss Thomas, Visits in Other Lands (textbook), 1950 • ... the modest man becomes bold, the shy confident, the lazy active, or the impetuous prudent and peaceful —W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848 |
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