Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

In "Mowing," the scythe makes a sound as it cuts, and that sound is delicate, it's quiet, it whispers.

在“割草“中镰刀割草时发出声响，这个声音很微弱，安静，像低声细语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I've read a lot of research in this area about the importance of quiet times whether it's in a class, in a lecture, whether it is at home, whether it is for a leader in the business, for relationship, for children starting from pre-schools.

关于安静时刻的重要性，无论是课堂里，讲座里，还是家中，无论是对公司领导，爱情关系，甚至学龄前儿童。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

She says this monument is a quiet place for people to come to terms with loss caused by the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The woman of action was ordered to remain quiet for months in a dark room, or become blind.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

On a sunny morning in eighteen fifty, however,the men of Roaring Camp were quiet.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

The nineteen twenties are remembered as a quiet period in American foreign policy.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

But,for many minutes, the heart beat on with a quiet sound.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Maudie was quiet. In the hay,lay a 1ittle wet calf.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

They launched their plannoes on a quiet Sunday morning and attacked the huge American naval and air base at Pearl Harbor "We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin: The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor,Hawaii by air, President Roosevelt has just announced."

VOA: special.2011.06.02

But earlier this month, the Indian government said it will launch a new round of "quiet diplomacy" with Kashmiri separatists.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The sewing machines are quiet now, but soon the owners hope, 3,000 pairs of boots a day will be produced here.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

I had left London town for the village of Downe and a home that is quiet and regal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Australia's newest natural burial site sits in a quiet corner at Kemps Creek, on the edge of Sydney.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Across the border in Mexico, the quiet town of Naco receives a steady flow of border crossers who have been arrested and deported from the U.S.side.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Compared to the well-known seismic areas like the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean seems geologically quiet, but this area where tectonic plates meet has a long history of earthquakes, tsunamis,and volcanoes.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

All of the rabbis come from the close-knit and wealthy Sephardic Jewish communities of southern New Jersey and Brooklyn and the arrests have put the spotlight on a usually quiet community.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

In nearby Saudi Arabia, which is an important player as well as a key moral force in the Arab and Islamic world, there appeared to be a quiet sense of enjoyment over the news.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09