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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melanie, strangely calm now, telegraphed him money and instructions to come home.
-- But his voice was calm and decisiveas he called to her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees, I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding.
-- Then, came that singular calm and silence which succeed all uproars; and then, with the vague sensation which I have always connected with such a lull,--namely, that it was Sunday, and somebody was dead,--I went upstairs to dress myself.
-- I leaned down, and her calm face was like a statue's.
-- Estella looked at her for a moment with a kind of calm wonder, but was not otherwise disturbed; when the moment was past, she looked down at the fire again.
-- "I begin to think," said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, "that I almost understand how this comes about.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I apprehended the arrow might be poi-soned, and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it as well as I could.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.
-- It was not the touch he needed most at such a moment the touch that could calm the wild waters of his soul, as the uplifted hand of the sublimest love and patience could abate the raging of the sea yet it was a woman's hand too.
-- That could hardly be, she knew, until an hour past midnight; but in the country silence, which did anything but calm the trouble of her thoughts, time lagged wearily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything in this man's manner revealed a calm and phlegmatic temperament.
-- Hans, with a perfectly calm and indifferent air, took his usual post at the head of the adventurous little band.
-- Hans seemed to accept the difficulties of the journey so tranquilly, with such calm indifference, with such perfect recklessness of all danger, that I actually blushed to appear less of a man than he!
-- Presently, despite my apathy, despite the kind of deadly calm into which I was cast, something aroused me.
-- When at last, however, he discovered that my feverish impatience would do more harm than good--and that the satisfaction of my wishes could alone restore me to a calm state of mind--he gave way.
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：
-- asked Clifford in his quiet, calm voice, that showed he was displeased.
-- I must get calm and clear.'
-- 'Quite!Get calm and clear!'
-- He spoke the vernacular with a curious calm assurance, as if he were the landlord of the Inn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an officer in command of the soldiers; a stout, serviceable, profoundly calm man, with his drawn sword in his hand, smoking a cigar.
-- There was the same smooth face and forehead, the same calm blue eye, the same placid air.
-- A composed and unobtrusive self-sustainment was noticeable in Daniel Doyce a calm knowledge that what was true must remain true, in spite of all the Barnacles in the family ocean, and would be just the truth, and neither more nor less when even that sea had run dry which had a kind of greatness in it, though not of the official quality.
-- It had not settled down into calm water again full two hours after he had been seen fuming away on the horizon at the top of the steps.
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