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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have supposed Mr Meagles and his family to strain every nerve, I think you said ''Every nerve,' repeated Mrs Gowan, looking at him in calm obstinacy, with her green fan between her face and the fire.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In came Amy, quite calm and delightfully cordial to the one guest who had kept her promise.
-- For a minute he was ruffled again at the mere thought of it, and then the fear that Meg would cry herself sick softened his heart, and sent him on at a quicker pace, resolving to be calm and kind, but firm, quite firm, and show her where she had failed in her duty to her spouse.
-- Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb grace-fully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank, and as silent as the sphinx.
-- Now that arrangement was not conducive to calm speech or clear thought on Jo's part, for how could she say hard things to her boy while he watched her with eyes full of love and longing, and lashes still wet with the bitter drop or two her hardness of heart had wrung from him?
-- replied the young rebel, helping himself to the coveted 'cakie', and beginning to eat the same with calm audacity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom.
-- A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
-- Oh, hard!that to fire others, the match itself must needs be wasting!What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!They think me mad Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened!That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and Aye!I lost this leg.
-- And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics, and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn swells, and he came forth from his dark den into the blessed light and air; even then, when he bore that firm, collected front, however pale, and issued his calm orders once again; and his mates thanked God the direful madness was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved on.
-- Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play this is a thing which carries more of true terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, he smiled, approvingly: to calm the rising wrath of the indignant parish officer.
-- But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.
-- 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.
-- He felt calm and happy, and could have died without a murmur.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern which was not in the least altered by her communication.
-- A short dialogue on the subject of the country ensued, on either side calm and concise and soon put an end to by the entrance of Charlotte and her sister, just returned from her walk.
-- 'When I wrote that letter,' replied Darcy, 'I believed my-self perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had slept well in the night, and was now no more sea-sick, but very cheerful, looking with wonder upon the sea that was so rough and terrible the day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so little a time after.
-- Certainly, nothing but some such de-creed unavoidable misery, which it was impossible for me to escape, could have pushed me forward against the calm reasonings and persuasions of my most retired thoughts, and against two such visible instructions as I had met with in my first attempt.
-- It happened one time, that going a-fishing in a calm morning, a fog rose so thick that, though we were not half a league from the shore, we lost sight of it; and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we laboured all day, and all the next night; and when the morning came we found we had pulled off to sea instead of pulling in for the shore; and that we were at least two leagues from the shore.
-- I had three encouragements - 1st, a smooth, calm sea; 2ndly, the tide rising, and setting in to the shore; 3rdly, what little wind there was blew me towards the land.
-- I had been now thirteen days on shore, and had been eleven times on board the ship, in which time I had brought away all that one pair of hands could well be supposed ca-pable to bring; though I believe verily, had the calm weather held, I should have brought away the whole ship, piece by piece.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The business of self-command she settled very easily; with strong affections it was impossible, with calm ones it could have no merit.
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