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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, after Glenarvan had calmly surveyed the actual state of affairs, he determined to bring things to a crisis.
-- "Explain yourself, Paganel," said the Major, "and more calmly if you can."
-- The Major calmly awaited the end with the fatalism of a Mussulman.
-- But his farewells were calmly spoken, and he speedily disappeared down a path which skirted the wood.
-- When he found himself in the presence of Lord Glenarvan he folded his arms and awaited the questions calmly and silently.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I assure you, you are under a delusion,' said the prince, calmly and politely.
-- You remember all this quite clearly, but how is it that your reason calmly accepted all the manifest absurdities and impossibilities that crowded into your dream?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Little points to them,' said I, as calmly as possible, with a catch in my breath; 'and a fine black fur at the edges?'
-- But Moreau and Montgomery stood calmly enough; and, perforce, I stuck beside them.
-- I tried to review the whole situation as calmly as I could, but it was difficult to clear the thing of emotion.
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：
-- 'How can such a wish be doubted!Have I not already of-fered ' 'Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,' calmly interrupted the scout, 'but spare your offers of mon-ey, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by.
-- 'Uncas will stay,' the young Mohican calmly answered in English.
-- Cora calmly demanded of the excited savage.
-- A gleam of resentment flashed across the dark lineaments of the Mohican chief; he loosened his knife in his sheath; and then turning calmly from the sight, his countenance settled into a repose as deep as if he knew the instigation of passion.
-- The war-riors had reassembled, and were now calmly smoking, while they conversed gravely on the chief incidents of their recent expedition to the head of the Horican.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then standing as if incredulous for a while, he calmly walked towards the astonished steward slowly saying, "Ginger?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had com-manded in telling her story, gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained her composure, and calmly replied: 'Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor had often wished for an opportunity of attempting to weaken her mother's dependence on the attachment of Edward and herself, that the shock might be less when the whole truth were revealed, and now on this attack, though almost hopeless of success, she forced herself to begin her design by saying, as calmly as she could, "I like Edward Ferrars very much, and shall always be glad to see him; but as to the rest of the family, it is a matter of perfect indifference to me, whether I am ever known to them or not."
-- Of Elinor's distress, she was too busily employed in measuring lengths of worsted for her rug, to see any thing at all; and calmly continuing her talk, as soon as Marianne disappeared, she said,"Upon my word, I never saw a young woman so desperately in love in my life!MY girls were nothing to her, and yet they used to be foolish enough; but as for Miss Marianne, she is quite an altered creature.
-- He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief.
-- Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting; for she calmly replied,"Not so, indeed; for, seriously speaking, I am very sure that conscience only kept Edward from Harley Street.
-- cried Mrs. Jennings; "Lord!my dear, how calmly you talk of it; and can the Colonel wait two or three months!Lord bless me! I am sure it would put ME quite out of patience! And though one would be very glad to do a kindness by poor Mr. Ferrars, I do think it is not worth while to wait two or three months for him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed as if he thought a while, for now he arose and turned the gas out, standing calmly in the blackness, hidden from view.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waving good-by to them, Pinocchio and Geppetto calmly went on their way.
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