| 词组 | quiet, quieten |
| 释义 | quiet, quieten Quieten, a synonym of quiet, was considered a "superfluous word" by Fowler 1926, who found that "while good writers seem to avoid it, it is common in uneducated talk." Despite Fowler's objections, quieten has persisted in British English, where its use is now by no means limited to the uneducated or unskillful: • ... making quietening gestures with both hands — William Golding, Free Fall, 1959 • When, at last, Lord Snowdon had quietened us —V. S. Pritchett, New Yorker, 24 June 1985 • ... she thought Roberta was quietening down — Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist, 1985 In American English, the verb used is quiet: • ... quieted the air like a summer Sunday morning —Zelda Fitzgerald, Ladies' Home Jour., January 1971 • ... because, as one camp leader said, "They never quieted down." —Alfred Lubrano, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 27 July 1985 |
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