peaceful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 和平的， 平静的， 安宁的， 爱好和平的，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：
-- So the day passed, and night came on, calm and peaceful as the preceding had been.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, there was the subject of his relations with his mother, which were now upon an equable and peaceful but never confidential footing, and whom he saw several times a week.
-- Within view was the peaceful river and the ferry-boat, to moralise to all the inmates saying: Young or old, passionate or tranquil, chafing or content, you, thus runs the current always.
-- Or had the suspicion been brought into his mind, by his own associations of the troubled river running beneath the bridge with the same river higher up, its changeless tune upon the prow of the ferry-boat, so many miles an hour the peaceful flowing of the stream, here the rushes, there the lilies, nothing uncertain or unquiet?
-- When he had walked on the river's brink in the peaceful moonlight for some half an hour, he put his hand in his breast and tenderly took out the handful of roses.
-- When it was high in the peaceful firmament, it shone through half-closed lattice blinds into the solemn room where the stumblings and wanderings of a life had so lately ended.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next our peaceful Tupman comes, So rosy, plump, and sweet, Who chokes with laughter at the puns, And tumbles off his seat.
-- The fever flush and the look of pain were gone, and the beloved little face looked so pale and peaceful in its utter repose that Jo felt no desire to weep or to lament.
-- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOLike sunshine after a storm were the peaceful weeks which followed.
-- Beth lay on her sofa, talking cheerily with her old friend, who held her little hand as if he felt that it possessed the power to lead him along the peaceful way she walked.
-- It was well for all that this peaceful time was given them as preparation for the sad hours to come, for by-and-by, Beth said the needle was 'so heavy', and put it down forever.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.
-- Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
-- And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights, did these inscrutable creatures at the centre freely and fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments; yea, serenely revelled in dalliance and delight.
-- How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
-- On such a day very much such a sweetness as this I struck my first whale a boy-harpooneer of eighteen!Forty forty forty years ago! ago!Forty years of continual whaling!forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time!forty years on the pitiless sea!for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!Aye and yes, Starbuck, out of those forty years I have not spent three ashore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from.
-- Crawling forth, from day to day, to some green sunny spot, they have had such memories wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their quick decline, and they have sunk into their tombs, as peacefully as the sun whose setting they watched from their lonely chamber window but a few hours before, faded from their dim and feeble sight!The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes.
-- The days were peaceful and serene; the nights brought with them neither fear nor care; no languishing in a wretched prison, or associating with wretched men; nothing but pleasant and happy thoughts.
-- 'If I had been less--less fortunate, the world would call it--if some obscure and peaceful life had been my destiny--if I had been poor, sick, helpless--would you have turned from me then?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peaceful methods meant, they saw, that the companies would soon run all their cars and those who had complained would be forgotten.
-- There was nothing so helpful to the companies as peaceful methods.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My boy," answered the Snail in a calm, peaceful voice, "my dear boy, I am a snail and snails are never in a hurry."
-- Poor Pinocchio pretended to be peaceful and contented, but he was far from that.
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