serenity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 安详, 宁静, 平静, 沉着，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：
-- As they passed onward, parting the boughs that clustered in their way, the serenity which the child had first assumed, stole into her breast in earnest; the old man cast no longer fearful looks behind, but felt at ease and cheerful, for the further they passed into the deep green shade, the more they felt that the tranquil mind of God was there, and shed its peace on them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To regain her serenity completely she went into the nursery, and spent the whole evening with her son, put him to bed herself, signed him with the cross, and tucked him up.
-- A look of fear crossed his face, but he regained his serenity immediately.
-- Anyone who did not know her and her circle, who had not heard all the utterances of the women expressive of commiseration, indignation, and amazement, that she should show herself in society, and show herself so conspicuously with her lace and her beauty, would have admired the serenity and loveliness of this woman without a suspicion that she was undergoing the sensations of a man in the stocks.
-- "Oh, still just the same, always at a loss," the landowner answered with a resigned smile, but with an expression of serenity and conviction that so it must be.
-- The handsome old man, with black grizzled beard and thick silvery hair, stood motionless, holding a cup of honey, looking down from the height of his tall figure with friendly serenity at the gentlefolk, obviously understanding nothing of their conversation and not caring to understand it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IV There was for Martin in these days a quality of satisfying delight; the zest of a fast hockey game, the serenity of the prairie, the bewilderment of great music, and a feeling of creation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fairhand was stretched forth to me from the window; and the face Ihad never seen without a feeling of serenity and happiness, fromthe moment when it first turned back on the old oak staircase withthe great broad balustrade, and when I associated its softenedbeauty with the stained-glass window in the church, was smilingon me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She longed for the serenity they might gradually intro-duce; and on Mr. Perry's coming in soon after dinner, with a disengaged hour to give her father, she lost no time ill hur-rying into the shrubbery. There, with spirits freshened, and thoughts a little relieved, she had taken a few turns, when she saw Mr. Knightley passing through the garden door, and coming towards her. It was the first intimation of his being returned from London.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba, a small yawn upon her mouth, took the pen, and with off-hand serenity directed the missive to Boldwood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here and there water shone like silver, and beyond, the land rose into blue undulating hills, and so faded into the serenity of the sky.
-- How was it related to the indolent serenity of the beautiful Overworlders?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do not wish to disturb the serenity of any man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He preserved his perfect serenity of manner on all occasions, as if the possibility of Clennam's presuming to have debated the great question were too distant and ridiculous to be imagined.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.
-- These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
-- Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a plain.
-- Starbuck saw the old man; saw him, how he heavily leaned over the side; and he seemed to hear in his own true heart the measureless sobbing that stole out of the centre of the serenity around.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to charac- terise her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards ev- eryone, had been scarcely ever clouded.
-- But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.
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