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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Major was about fifty years of age, with a calm face and regular features—a man who did whatever he was told, of an excellent, indeed, a perfect temper; modest, silent, peaceable, and amiable, agreeing with everybody on every subject, never discussing, never disputing, never getting angry.
-- Fortunately the weather was calm and the sky clear, in addition to the season being favorable, but in Winter, from May to October, such an ascent would have been impracticable.
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- So the day passed, and night came on, calm and peaceful as the preceding had been.
-- He measured more than fifteen feet, and his powerful wings bore him along with scarcely the slightest effort, for it is the prerogative of large birds to fly with calm majesty, while insects have to beat their wings a thousand times a second.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aglaya gazed at him for some seconds with precisely the same composure and calm astonishment as she had shown a little while before, when the prince handed her the note, and it appeared that this calm surprise and seemingly ab-solute incomprehension of what was said to her, were more terribly overwhelming to Gania than even the most plainly expressed disdain would have been.
-- She said all this, knitting away the while as though perfectly calm and composed.
-- One fine morning a man called upon him, calm and severe of aspect, distin-guished, but plainly dressed.
-- He meant to calm his hearers, and did not perceive that his words had only increased their irritation.
-- Calm yourself' said Lizabetha Prokofievna, much moved.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this calm kind of way, with very little interest on either side, they continued to talk, both of them out of spirits, and the thoughts of both engaged elsewhere.
-- But the letter, when she was calm enough to read it, brought little comfort.
-- The calm and polite unconcern of Lady Middleton on the occasion was a happy relief to Elinor's spirits, oppressed as they often were by the clamorous kindness of the others.
-- They then talked on for a few minutes longer without her catching a syllable, when another lucky stop in Marianne's performance brought her these words in the Colonel's calm voice, "I am afraid it cannot take place very soon."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was looking for something which would calm her conscience, and here it was, a light, airy disregard of her claims upon his justice.
-- "Ray," she said, gently, using a tone of voice much more calm than when she had last appeared.
-- He was exceedingly nervous, but did his best to put on a calm exterior.
-- He had taken away some of the bitterness of the contrast between this life and her life, and all by a certain calm indifference which concerned only him.
-- She tried to be calm and indifferent, but it was a palpable sham.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let me tell you, for your own good, Pinocchio," said the Talking Cricket in his calm voice, "that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison."
-- The sun came out in full splendor and the sea became as calm as a lake.
-- For a while Pinocchio was very calm and quiet.
-- The sea is calm and the night is as bright as day.
-- At all these questions, tumbling out one after another, the Snail answered, calm as ever: "My dear Pinocchio, the Fairy is lying ill in a hospital."
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