Quiescent

(adj.) (pathology) causing no symptoms; 'a quiescent tumor' .

(adj.) being quiet or still or inactive .

(adj.) not active or activated; 'the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation' .

(adj.) marked by a state of tranquil repose; 'the quiescent melancholy of the town' .

校对:路易丝

• We may mean by potentiality a merely dormant or quiescent state--a capacity to become something different under external influences. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Lady Bertram was perfectly quiescent and contented, and had no objections to make. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

整理:瓦莱丽