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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night was calm and clear, and the reflection of the growing multitude of the stars shivered in the tran-quil heaving of the sea.
-- I looked at him, and saw but a white-faced, white-haired man, with calm eyes.
-- Then I shut the door, locked it, and went into the enclosure where Moreau lay beside his latest victims, the staghounds and the llama and some other wretched brutes, with his massive face calm even after his terrible death, and with the hard eyes open, staring at the dead white moon above.
-- I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul.
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：
-- The former was seated on the end of a mossy log, in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect of his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate.
-- 'Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind,' returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; 'and they often aid a man in his good - intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves.
-- This deed of apparent cruelty, but of real ne-cessity, fell upon the spirits of the travelers like a terrific warning of the peril in which they stood, heightened as it was by the calm though steady resolution of the actors in the scene.
-- He now spoke in Delaware to his companions, and his address, though calm and deliberate, seemed very decided.
-- The settled, calm look of the young chief changed to an expression of gloom, but he no longer hesitated.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at me with her calm gray eyes.
-- Strickland's injurious calm robbed Stroeve of the rest of his self-control.
-- Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them calm and prosperous lives, and in their decent decay they kept still an aroma of their splendid past.
-- Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which has been swept by a hurricane.
-- Then the wind dropped, and the sea was calm and blue.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A perfect calm reigned around them.
-- The weather was magnificent, the sea as calm as if its waters were contained within the narrow limits of a lake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where, in the sharp lineaments of rigid and unsightly death, is the calm beauty of slumber, telling of rest for the waking hours that are past, and gentle hopes and loves for those which are to come?
-- While they were thus engaged, the lady of the caravan alighted on the earth, and with her hands clasped behind her, and her large bonnet trembling excessively, walked up and down in a measured tread and very stately manner, surveying the caravan from time to time with an air of calm delight, and deriving particular gratification from the red panels and the brass knocker.
-- 'It's calm and what's that word again critical? no classical, that's it it's calm and classical.
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
-- why cannot we push them back, only a week or two in our memories, so as to put them at once at that convenient distance whence they may be regarded either with a calm indifference or a pleasant effort of recollection!why will they hang about us, like the flavour of yesterday's wine, suggestive of headaches and lassitude, and those good intentions for the future, which, under the earth, form the everlasting pavement of a large estate, and, upon it, usually endure until dinner-time or thereabouts!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not that curtain, Phillip--the one at the large window," she said in a sad voice, evidently pitying herself for the efforts she was compelled to make to say these words, and to calm herself, with her ring-bedecked hand, she lifted to her lips the fragrant, smoking cigarette.
-- That he was seeking an interview with her, and told the prosecutor of his intention, and visited two prisons preparing for the ordeal, had so excited him that he could not calm down.
-- But as it always happens in the first moment of calm after a period of agitation, the child, his child, suddenly shuddered.
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