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：
-- Lady Helena, whose interest was greatly excited by this spectacle, got out of the wagon, followed by Mary, and presently the whole company surrounded the peaceful little sleeper.
-- It was evident, from the flocks of birds on the lower branches of the trees, and the kangaroos feeding quietly on the young shoots, and a couple of emus whose confiding heads passed between the great clumps of bushes, that those peaceful solitudes were untroubled by the presence of human beings.
-- During the geological epochs of the earth, this mountain had gradually emerged from the depths of the Pacific, through the action of the subterranean fires, but for ages back the volcano had been a peaceful mountain, and the filled-up crater, an island rising out of the liquid plain.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit country-side there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
-- All was sweet and mellow and peaceful in the golden evening light, and yet as I looked at them my soul shared none of the peace of nature but quiv-ered at the vagueness and the terror of that interview which every instant was bringing nearer.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had before this experienced fits of sud-den fury, but not very often, because he was really a man of peaceful and kindly disposition.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I thought that the man I had just seen had been clothed in bluish cloth, had not been naked as a savage would have been; and I tried to persuade myself from that fact that he was after all probably a peaceful character, that the dull ferocity of his counte-nance belied him.
-- The peaceful splendour of the night healed again.
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：
-- 'It was a convenient, and, I trust, will prove a peaceful grave for a soldier.
-- A few rods in their front lay another of the wooded islets, but it appeared as calm and peaceful as if its solitude had never been disturbed by the foot of man.
-- The eye could range, in every direction, through the long and shadowed vistas of the trees; but no-where was any object to be seen that did not properly belong to the peaceful and slumbering scenery.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- They harried his hitherto peaceful domains, smoked out his singing- school by stopping up the chimney, broke into the schoolhouse at night, in spite of its formidable fastenings of withe and window stakes, and turned everything topsy-turvy, so that the poor schoolmaster began to think all the witches in the country held their meetings there.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the next day, the 29th of March, fresh and active they awoke, ready to undertake the excursion which must determine their fate.
-- Then each settled himself as well as he could to sleep, and in that rocky hole, at a height of two thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea, through a peaceful night, the islanders enjoyed profound repose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that there was nobody in sight, he presently returned into the house with his legal friend, protesting (as the child heard from the staircase), that there was a league and plot against him; that he was in danger of being robbed and plundered by a band of conspirators who prowled about the house at all seasons; and that he would delay no longer but take immediate steps for disposing of the property and returning to his own peaceful roof.
-- 'Only remember what we have been since that bright morning when we turned our backs upon it for the last time,' said Nell, 'only remember what we have been since we have been free of all those miseries what peaceful days and quiet nights we have had what pleasant times we have known what happiness we have enjoyed.
-- Why had they ever come to this noisy town, when there were peaceful country places, in which, at least, they might have hungered and thirsted, with less suffering than in its squalid strife!They were but an atom, here, in a mountain heap of misery, the very sight of which increased their hopelessness and suffering.
-- 'A peaceful place to live in, don't you think so?'
-- Already impressed, beyond all telling, by the silent building and the peaceful beauty of the spot in which it stood majestic age surrounded by perpetual youth it seemed to her, when she heard these things, sacred to all goodness and virtue.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not a pleasant noise in itself, and I have often complained of it at other times, but just then it was like music to hear my friends snoring together so loud and peaceful in their sleep.
-- This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he added: "Our peaceful cemetery is there, some hundred feet below the surface of the waves."
-- And this is the reason why these plants unite in the peaceful basin of the Atlantic.
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