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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man made a movement of impatience, but Quilp went on as calmly as if he were discussing some abstract question in which nobody present had the slightest personal interest.
-- Looking into the room, she saw him lying calmly on his bed, and so took courage to enter.
-- Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she all composure pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff.
-- CHAPTER 72When morning came, and they could speak more calmly on the subject of their grief, they heard how her life had closed.
-- Calmly happy in his school, and in the spot, and in the attachment of Her little mourner, he pursued his quiet course in peace; and was, through the righteous gratitude of his friend let this brief mention suffice for that a POOR school-master no more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- calmly but firmly repeated the justiciary.
-- She sighed calmly and again fixed her eyes on the justiciary.
-- But the handsome, strong Phillip concealed his impatience, and calmly carried out the instructions of the enervated, weak, artificial Princess Sophia Vasilievna.
-- Nekhludoff experienced strange feelings and commiseration for the prisoners, and, for some reason, shame that he should so calmly view it.
-- Having made an outline of a speech, which he was to deliver to the peasants the following day, Nekhludoff went to the manager's house, and after further deliberating upon the proper disposition of the stock, he calmly and contentedly retired to a room prepared for him in the large building.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very calmly I tried to strike the match.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the captain looked at him calmly and proceeded to fill a pipe.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perhaps so," calmly answered Conseil.
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：
-- Mademoiselle was of no count whatever, the child merely put up with her, calmly and easily, accepting her little authority with faint scorn, compliant out of childish arrogance of indifference.
-- After having considered for a few minutes, a soft bunch with a black, open eye, which perhaps was looking at them, perhaps was not, it hobbled calmly forward and began to nibble the grass with that mean motion of a rabbit's quick eating.
-- Hermione seemed so calmly and sanely candid.
-- said Gudrun, looking calmly at Gerald.
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