• n. 休息；睡眠；靜止
• vt. 使休息；寄托于
• vi. 休息；座落；長眠；依靠；靜臥；建立于

來自中古法語 reposer,來自古法語 repauser,來自拉丁語 repausare,停下休息，來自 re-,表強(qiáng)調(diào)， pausare,停下，暫停，詞源同 pause.

repose

repose: Repose ‘rest’ [15] and repose ‘place’ [15] (as in ‘repose confidence in someone’) are distinct words in English. The former comes via Old French reposer from late Latin repausāre, a compound verb based on pausāre ‘rest’ (source of English pause). The latter was an English coinage, formed from the prefix re- and the verb pose ‘place’. It was modelled on Latin repōnere ‘replace’, whose derivative repositorium has given English repository [15].
=> pause; position, repository

repose (v.1)

"lie at rest," mid-15c., from Middle French reposer, from Old French repauser (10c.), from Late Latin repausare "cause to rest," from Latin re-, here probably an intensive prefix (see re-), + Late Latin pausare "to stop" (see pause (v.)). Related: Reposed; reposing.

repose (v.2)

"put, place," mid-15c., from Latin repos-, stem of reponere "put back, set back, replace, restore; put away, lay out, stretch out," from re- "back, away" (see re-) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). Or perhaps [Klein] formed in Middle English from Old French poser, on model of disposen "dispose."

repose (n.)

"rest," c. 1500, from Middle French repos (11c.), back-formation from reposer (see repose (v.1)).

1. Its atmosphere is one of repose rather than excitement.

那里氣氛安寧而不熱鬧。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He had a still, almost blank face in repose.

他休息時面部平靜，幾乎毫無表情。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Don't disturb her repose.

不要打擾她休息.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. " And was still operating, on Mr. Dimmesdale's well - being and repose . "

而且那機(jī)器仍在 開動,他還得忍受.

來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學(xué)

5. Consider what I did - I who so loved repose and inaction.

我是個愛好安逸、不好活動的人,可是想想看我干了件什么事.

來自名作英譯部分