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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fugitives looked without understanding, fearing lest the charm that enchained Kai-Koumou's tribe should be broken.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stifling atmosphere foretold a storm, and the prince felt a certain charm in the contemplative mood which possessed him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You will diminish them, indeed,' returned the arch girl; 'for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execu-tion and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!'
-- 'The holy charm is beginning to be felt, and soon shalt thou see this horrid tumult stilled.'
-- The men of the Lenape listened to his words with all the respect that superstition could lend, finding a secret charm even in the figurative language with which the young Saga-more imparted his ideas.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Tahiti is smiling and friendly; it is like a lovely woman graciously prodigal of her charm and beauty; and nothing can be more conciliatory than the entrance into the harbour at Papeete.
-- She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'May the present moment,' said Dick, sticking his fork into a large carbuncular potato, 'be the worst of our lives!I like the plan of sending 'em with the peel on; there's a charm in drawing a potato from its native element (if I may so express it) to which the rich and powerful are strangers.
-- It was also required of him that he should partake of their exercise of constantly ascending an endless flight of stairs; and, lest his legs, unused to such exertion, should be weakened by it, that he should wear upon one ankle an amulet or charm of iron.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides he all the time looked so easy and indolent himself, so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so broadly gaped open-mouthed at times that the mere sight of such a yawning commander, by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon the crew.
-- But I sometimes think he'll charm the ship to no good at last.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley varied the charm by a lively Scotch air; and soon afterwards Mr. Darcy, drawing near Elizabeth, said to her: 'Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?'
-- The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who ac-cepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
-- The sudden ac-quisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than in Charlotte's, did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence.
-- She could see him instantly before her, in every charm of air and address; but she could remember no more substantial good than the general approbation of the neighbourhood, and the regard which his social powers had gained him in the mess.
-- Mrs. Gardiner was surprised and concerned; but as they were now approaching the scene of her former pleasures, every idea gave way to the charm of recollection; and she was too much engaged in pointing out to her husband all the interesting spots in its environs to think of anything else.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
-- The house, too, as described by Sir John, was on so simple a scale, and the rent so uncommonly moderate, as to leave her no right of objection on either point; and, therefore, though it was not a plan which brought any charm to her fancy, though it was a removal from the vicinity of Norland beyond her wishes, she made no attempt to dissuade her mother from sending a letter of acquiescence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at the blue sky overhead with more realisation of its charm than had ever come to her before.
-- For the most part he lounged about, dressed in excellent tailored suits of imported goods, a solitaire ring, a fine blue diamond in his tie, a striking vest of some new pattern, and a watch-chain of solid gold, which held a charm of rich design, and a watch of the latest make and engraving.
-- His great charm was attentiveness.
-- If there was a touch of appreciation left in him for the bloom and unsophistication which is the charm of youth, it rekindled now.
-- Experience had not yet taken away that freshness of the spirit which is the charm of the body.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches when-ever he wanted to just by saying some- thing to it; but he never told what it was he said to it.
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