calm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (天气， 海洋等) 静的n. 平静v. (使) 平静，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed, and his heaving breast and shaken form had long yielded to the calm that must follow all storms emblem to human-ity, of the rest and silence into which the storm called Life must hush at last they came forward to raise the father and daughter from the ground.
-- 'England is very attractive to you, seeing how indiffer-ently you have prospered there,' he observed then, turning his calm face to his nephew with a smile.
-- His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.
-- Mr. Lorry said what he could to calm her, and went him-self into the Doctor's room.
-- But, 375the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morn-ing air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, were I rich in calm and peace of mind, My grief you then would not here written find!
-- You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights, and utter such high natural tones.
-- 'O warm spicy land of my birth,' sang the Canary bird; 'I will sing of thy dark-green bowers, of the calm bays where the pendent boughs kiss the surface of the water; I will sing of the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters where the cac-tus grows in wanton luxuriance.'
-- They danced hand in hand beside the calm lake in the clear moonshine.
-- And there were large calm lakes there too, in which white swans were swimming, and beat the air with their wings.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch could be calm when he thought of his wife, he could hope that she would come round, as Matvey expressed it, and could quietly go on reading his paper and drinking his coffee; but when he saw her tortured, suffering face, heard the tone of her voice, submissive to fate and full of despair, there was a catch in his breath and a lump in his throat, and his eyes began to shine with tears.
-- Vronsky was a squarely built, dark man, not very tall, with a good- humored, handsome, and exceedingly calm and resolute face.
-- But this calm for thought never came; every time the thought rose of what she had done and what would happen to her, and what she ought to do, a horror came over her and she drove those thoughts away.
-- He answered her questions, and, seeing that she was agitated, trying to calm her, he began telling her in the simplest tone the details of his preparations for the races.
-- He was calm and dignified as ever, and was with his own hands holding Frou-Frou by both reins, standing straight in front of her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.
-- Whether she would find a protector in him she could not tell; but Mr. Fogg essayed to calm her anxieties, and to assure her that everything would be mathematically he used the very word arranged.
-- Aouda was amazed to find him as calm as he had been from the first time she saw him.
-- There were some signs of a calm at noon, and these became more distinct as the sun descended toward the horizon.
-- Mr. Fogg was as calm and taciturn as ever.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- secretary, who for a considerable time held her hand to calm her.
-- But there was a steady calm about them; there was, Martin believed, no anxiety over money in their voices nor any restlessness of envy and scandalous gossip.
-- He hurled overboard all the polemics with which he had protected himself: "Men who never have had the experience of trying, in the midst of an epidemic, to remain calm and keep experimental conditions, do not realize in the security of their laboratories what one has to contend with."
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