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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I looked and looked till I was nearly blind, whilst Conseil kept repeating in a calm voice:"If, sir, you would not squint so much, you would see better!"
-- "Calm yourself, friend Ned, calm yourself," replied Conseil, quietly.
-- The man with the soft calm eyes listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; but nothing in his countenance indicated that he had understood my story.
-- After some moments of silence, which not one of us dreamed of breaking, "Gentlemen," said he, in a calm and penetrating voice, "I speak French, English, German, and Latin equally well.
-- Above me was the calm surface of the sea.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her face was calm and considerate.
-- Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling animation of the women's world.
-- "Too much bloody soul and talk altogether "He withdrew in a dudgeon, Gerald staring after him with angry eyes, that grew gradually calm and amiable as the stoutly-built form of the other man passed into the distance.
-- There was a queer little smile in Gerald's eyes, a look of amusement, calm and curious.
-- The girl looked at Gerald with steady, calm curiosity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I have nothing to be calm about.
-- The young man continued to crumple the bit of paper, and he made such a good effort to remain calm that his face seemed to bear an angry expression.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall, and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun.
-- It behoves me to be calm and patient, to learn the way of the people, to get a clear idea of the method of my loss, and the means of getting materials and tools; so that in the end, perhaps, I may make another.'
-- Still, I must be calm and patient, find its hiding-place, and recover it by force or cunning.
-- In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened.
-- "You may imagine how all my calm vanished.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
-- While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm moment, when the ship was still, Israel Hands turned partly round and with a low moan writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first.
-- Silver leant back against the wall, his arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his mouth, as calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it on his unruly followers.
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