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serenity n.宁静；沉着 (1) 我们不知道究竟哪一样最使人肃然起敬，是他面色的惨白呢，还是他神宇的宁静。(2) 当我身处大教堂时赶到平和与宁静。 It is hard to believe that the ocean, whipped by winds during a storm, can ever return to a state of serenity, where its surface looks like glass. Serenity is from Latin serenus "calm, peaceful" plus the suffix -itas. The first part of the word is the English adjective serene, which means calm and peaceful. The Latin suffix corresponds to our English suffix -ity and has the meaning "quality or state."

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英 [sə'renəti] 美 [sə'renəti] (1) They did not know which was most worthy of admiration, his pallor or his serenity.(2) I enjoyed the serenity and the peacefulness when I was in the church. The goal of meditation is to reach a state of serenity, when your mind is still and perfectly calm. Use serenity to mean the quality or state of being calm and peaceful.

英语单词	serenity
英美音标	英 [sə'renəti] 美 [sə'renəti]
中文释义	n.宁静；沉着
英语例句	(1) They did not know which was most worthy of admiration, his pallor or his serenity. (2) I enjoyed the serenity and the peacefulness when I was in the church.
中文例句	(1) 我们不知道究竟哪一样最使人肃然起敬，是他面色的惨白呢，还是他神宇的宁静。 (2) 当我身处大教堂时赶到平和与宁静。
vocabulary简明	The goal of meditation is to reach a state of serenity, when your mind is still and perfectly calm. Use serenity to mean the quality or state of being calm and peaceful.
vocabulary扩展	It is hard to believe that the ocean, whipped by winds during a storm, can ever return to a state of serenity, where its surface looks like glass. Serenity is from Latin serenus "calm, peaceful" plus the suffix -itas. The first part of the word is the English adjective serene, which means calm and peaceful. The Latin suffix corresponds to our English suffix -ity and has the meaning "quality or state."

Serenity State Suffix I Calm Peaceful Latin English