serene是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 宁静的, 安详的，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a divine day!How happy and serene all nature appears!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure ofquiet to her disturbed mind.
-- It was the sight of her mother's serene face upturned to the throne of God and His saints and angels,praying for blessings on those whom she loved.
-- She suddenly felt that this was where she belonged, not in serene and quiet old cities, flat beside yellowwaters.
-- Through the letters ran a wistful yearning to be back home at Twelve Oaks, and for pages he wrote of the hunting andthe long rides through the still forest paths under frosty autumn stars, the barbecues, the fish fries, the quiet ofmoonlight nights and the serene charm of the old house.
-- Now it was morning and the world was still and serene and green and gold with dappled sunshine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabb's boy smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the road, and crying to the populace, "Hold me!I'm so frightened!"
-- I had fallen into my serene state one evening, when we heard a letter dropped through the slit in the said door, and fall on the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
-- So, he kissed her and went away; and Louisa returned to the serene apartment of the hair-cutting character, and leaning her elbow on her hand, looked again at the short-lived sparks that so soon subsided into ashes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "They will not lap us round," was his quiet and serene answer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He softly opened his window, and looked out upon the serene river.
-- Helped out by the Courier and some half-dozen of the hotel servants, he was passing through the hall with a serene magnificence, when lo!a sight presented itself that struck him dumb and motionless.
-- The vista of street and bridge was plain to see, and the sky was serene and beautiful.
-- The Patriarchal state, always a state of calmness and composure, was so particularly serene that evening as to be provoking.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 2, All serene on the Rappahannock, troops in fine condi-tion, commisary department well conducted, the Home Guard under Colonel Teddy always on duty, Commander in Chief General Laurence reviews the army daily, Quar-termaster Mullet keeps order in camp, and Major Lion does picket duty at night.
-- A Polish count, aged eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him, 'a fascinating dear', and a German Serene Something, having come to supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour.
-- The serene Teu-ton found the supper table and was happy, eating steadily through the bill of fare, and dismayed the garcons by the ravages he committed.
-- A sad eclipse of the serene soul, a sharp struggle of the young life with death, but both were mercifully brief, and then the natural rebellion over, the old peace returned more beautiful than ever.
-- MY BETH Sitting patient in the shadow Till the blessed light shall come, A serene and saintly presence Sanctifies our troubled home.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.
-- In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful.
-- It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.
-- So that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake.
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