“quieta non movere”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

quieta non movere

释义

‖ quieta non movere|kwiːˈeɪtə nəʊn məʊˈvɛəriː|
[L., lit. ‘not to move settled things’.]
A maxim expressing preference for the status quo; ‘let sleeping dogs lie’.
1771H. Walpole Let. 26 Mar. in Corr. (1937) VII. 289 My father's maxim, Quieta non movere, was very well in those ignorant days.1854W. Bagehot in Prospective Review X. 526 It lived on the fat of the land; quieta non movere, was its motto.1887Athenæum 27 Aug. 276/2 But was the book quite worth publishing? ‘Quieta non movere’ holds good even of dormant articles.1905D. M. Wallace Russia I. xix. 373 Quieta non movere is her [sc. the Russian Church's] fundamental principle of conduct.1960Encounter XIV. iii. 88 Quieta non movere is the motto of many once aggressive..radicals.

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