qui·etus /kwaɪˈitəs, ˈe-/
最後的解除,償清,生命的終止
Qui·e·tus n. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin. --Shak.
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quietus
n : euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a
bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her
husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
[syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep]