calmly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 平静地， 沉着地，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And had I truly disciplined my heart to this, andcould I resolutely bear it, and calmly hold the place in her homewhich she had calmly held in mine,- when I found my eyes restingon a countenance that might have arisen out of the fire, in itsassociation with my early remembrances.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps she might have passed over more had his manners been flattering to Isabella's sister, but they were only those of a calmly kind brother and friend, without praise and without blindness; but hardly any degree of per-sonal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all in her eyes which he sometimes fell into, the want of respectful forbearance towards her father.
-- Forc-ing herself to speak, therefore, in the hope of putting it by, she calmly said, 'You are quite in the right; it was most natural to pay your visit, then' He was silent.
-- 'No,' he calmly replied, 'there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is ' ' Mrs.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba, not being the least in love with him, was eventually able to look calmly at his offer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stephen calmly asked.
-- 'I thought it must be near three,' she said, calmly pouring from the cup into the basin, and steeping the linen as before.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next day, June 23d, Hans calmly awaited us outside the presbytery with his three companions loaded with provisions, tools, and instruments.
-- He calmly led us by narrow paths where two persons could by no possibility walk abreast.
-- Hans advanced as calmly as if he had been walking over Salisbury Plain; sometimes he would disappear behind huge blocks of stone, and we momentarily lost sight of him.
-- "Again," thought I, reasoning as calmly as was possible, "there is another sure means of not losing my way, a thread to guide me through the labyrinthine subterraneous retreat--one which I had forgotten--my faithful river."
-- "Yes," replied the Professor, looking at me calmly from under his spectacles, "it is the only chance which remains to us of ever escaping from the interior of the earth to the light of day."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She expected to see Jeremiah fast asleep or in a fit, but he was calmly seated in a chair, awake, and in his usual health.
-- Mr Flintwinch gave this explanation with great calmness, and calmly waited for an answer.
-- The artist traveller calmly came and took his place at table when the rest sat down, with no apparent sense upon him of his late skirmish with the completely dressed traveller.
-- He never said, I discovered this adaptation or invented that combination; but showed the whole thing as if the Divine artificer had made it, and he had happened to find it; so modest he was about it, such a pleasant touch of respect was mingled with his quiet admiration of it, and so calmly convinced he was that it was established on irrefragable laws.
-- It flashed out of her dark eyes as they regarded him, quivered in her nostrils, and fired the very breath she exhaled; but her face was otherwise composed into a disdainful serenity; and her attitude was as calmly and haughtily graceful as if she had been in a mood of complete indifference.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, I should merely say, quite calmly and decidedly, 'Thank you, Mr. Brooke, you are very kind, but I agree with Father that I am too young to enter into any engagement at present, so please say no more, but let us be friends as we were.'
-- Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs. Brooke, with her apron over her head, sat sobbing dis-mally.
-- Uncle, calmly admiring his boots 'No, my dear, not unless you want beer, that's a brewery.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation, but said as calmly as I could, "What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could I know there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale, though indeed I might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident."
-- Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
-- "Mr. Stubb," said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain; "Mr. Stubb, I think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent.
-- "Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the Lakeman had slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool; calmly looking on, he thought his own thoughts.
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