serenity
英 [sə'renəti] 好意思 [sə'renəti]
n.宁静；千里着
◉词源
{jz:field.toptypename/}“Serenity”源自拉丁语“serenitas”，意为“安逸、爽脆”，由“serenus”（安逸、晴朗）繁衍。15世纪插足英语，领先指天气的晴朗或安逸，后扩充为内心或环境的宁静、和睦，常用于形势从容的现象。
◉外刊例句
·《The New Yorker》 (2025年6月10日)
The lake’s serenity calmed her nerves.
湖面的宁静安抚了她的病笃情谊。
·《The Guardian》 (2024年11月15日)
He spoke with a serenity that inspired trust.
他以一种令东说念主深信的安逸口吻谈话。
◉经典名著
·《简·爱》（Jane Eyre） by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Her serenity softened his anger.
她的安逸大意了他的盛怒。
·《瓦尔登湖》（Walden） by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
The forest’s serenity restored my soul.
丛林的宁静招引了我的灵魂。
◉Usage Examples
(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.
(1) 咱们不知说念究竟哪相似最使东说念主骚然起敬，是他面色的苍白呢，已经他神宇的宁静。
(2) 当我身处大教堂时赶到和睦与宁静。
◉Usage Notes
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.
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."