When you are in a library, you must be quiet. 当你在图书馆时,你必须保持安静。
Please keep quiet while others are studying. 在别人学习的时候,请保持安静。
His health has turned all the better for him after a quiet holiday abroad. 在国外度过一个宁静的假期，他的健康状况有所好转。
Everything was quiet under the blinking stars. 在这闪耀的星光底下,一切都很平静。
用作名词 (n.)
Leave me alone. I just want some peace and quiet. 别理我,我只想安静一下。
There was such a world of hereditary quiet in her. 她身上有一种先天的娴静气质。
The cure for this lies in admitting the part of sane and quiet enjoyment in a balanced ideal of life. 解决的方法在于承认平衡的理想生活中健全闲适的享受的重要。
He was the bard of the farmers and workers of New England and his quiet verse mirrored the staid New Hampshire countryside. 他是新英格兰农民和工人的歌唱者，他的闲适的诗歌反映着新罕布什尔宁静的农村生活。
用作及物动词 (vt.)
I am well aware that nothing else will quiet Tom. 我很清楚,别的任何办法都不能使汤姆罢休。
The principal tried to quiet the students. 校长试图让学生们安静下来。
用作不及物动词 (vi.)
When he quieted down, I began to tell him the truth. 当他平静下来时，我开始告诉他实情。
