charm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 吸引力, 可爱之处, 迷人, 施魔法，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see him now, excellent and venerable old man!His eyes wandered in va-cancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight his Elizabeth, his more than daughter, whom he doted on with all that affection which a man feels, who in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- The house had been built according to no architectural plan whatever, with extra rooms added where and when itseemed convenient, but, with Ellen's care and attention, it gained a charm that made up for its lack of design.
-- They topped the rise and the white house reared its perfect symmetry before her, tall of columns, wide ofverandas, flat of roof, beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous andgracious to all.
-- On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was aswarm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.
-- Because of these qualities that came sincerely and spontaneously from a generous heart, everyone flocked abouther, for who can resist the charm of one who discovers in others admirable qualities undreamed of even by himself?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The freshness of her beauty was indeed gone, but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charm remained.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the charm is around her, And the spell has bound her, Hie away!away!'
-- When the time came for them to set out, the fairy went into her bed- chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her hair, and gave it to the princess, and said, 'Take care of it, dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road.'
-- 'I have shut them up by a charm between two mountains,' said the dwarf, 'because they were proud and ill-behaved, and scorned to ask advice.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was his charm for her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was round and fresh and dimpled and spoilt, and there was in Pet an air of timidity and dependence which was the best weakness in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without.
-- Who could pass an evening in the house, and not love her for the grace and charm of her very presence in the room?
-- All the natural charm of the previous day was gone.
-- Still, her youthful and ethereal appearance, her timid manner, the charm of her sensitive voice and eyes, the very many respects in which she had interested him out of her own individuality, and the strong difference between herself and those about her, were not in unison, and were determined not to be in unison, with this newly presented idea.
-- 'Mrs Merdle,' Mr Dorrit insinuatingly pursued, 'I left, as you will be prepared to hear, the ha observed of all observers, the hum admired of all admirers, the leading fascination and charm of Society in Rome.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had evidently been new-ly tuned and put in applepie order, but, perfect as it was, I think the real charm lay in the happiest of all happy faces which leaned over it, as Beth lovingly touched the beautiful black and white keys and pressed the bright pedals.
-- There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the con-sciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.'
-- She very soon discovered that there is a charm about fine clothes which attracts a certain class of people and secures their re-spect.
-- Meg looked very like a rose herself, for all that was best and sweetest in heart and soul seemed to bloom into her face that day, making it fair and tender, with a charm more beautiful than beauty.
-- Amy is with truth considered 'the flower of the family', for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies what is the one charm wanting? Water there is not a drop of water there!Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?
-- Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood.
-- Oh, my pipe!hard must it go with me if thy charm be gone!Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring aye, and ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were the strongest and fullest of trouble.
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