| 单词 | calm |
| 释义 | calm I. 1. a. < gradual sinks the breeze into a perfect calm — James Thomson †1748 > b. < a sailing ship motionless in the calm > c. 2. < the bustle subsides and relative calm is resumed — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < the majesty of artistic contemplation, looking in sacred calm upon all this world … itself unmoved — Josiah Royce > II. 1. < the sea was calm, save for a heavy but smooth ground swell — Jack London > 2. < we men are all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm — Bram Stoker > < be rational … consider, and make a cool, calm choice — T.L.Peacock > 3. a. < a calm liar > b. < a calm scoundrel > Synonyms: < when winds that move not its calm surface sweep the azure sea — P.B.Shelley > < the senate, surprised but calm and energetic as usual, hushed up the news of these many defeats — H.W.Van Loon > tranquil may suggest a somewhat deeper, more settled or composed quietude with less notion of previous agitation dispelled < on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest the silver clouds — John Keats > < with footsteps quiet and slow at a tranquil pace — Elinor Wylie > < all unhappiness, all discontent, seemed banished, giving way to a tranquil content — Charles Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < a tranquil trust in God amid tortures and death too horrible to be related — J.L.Motley > serene suggests sheer and utter peace, lofty, happy, and quite unruffled < gliding o'er ocean, smooth, serene, and even — P.B.Shelley > < the large fair face … was neither clouded nor ravaged, but finely serene — Henry James †1916 > < his [Washington's] unflagging patriotism, his calm wisdom, his serene moral courage, because in the gloomiest hours he never lost his dignity, poise, or decision — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > It is occasionally used in situations involving an enervating absence of challenge < his marriage had relapsed into the serene monotony that so often wears the aspect of happiness — Ellen Glasgow > placid may stress utter lack of agitation more strongly than the positive fact of peace and composure < the placid gleam of sunset after storm — Alfred Tennyson > < a plump and placid figure … [she] received the invasion with competent tranquillity — Dorothy Sayers > In derogation it may imply stupidity < no teasing worried Una; she was as placid as a young cow — Rose Macaulay > peaceful, which has less suggestion than the others in this group, stresses the fact of undisturbed repose unlikely to change < now sleeping in those peaceful groves — William Wordsworth > < I am grown peaceful as old age tonight — Robert Browning > halcyon suggests magic or golden stillness < the brightest hour of unborn spring … the halcyon morn — P.B.Shelley > < change into such halcyon days the winter of the world, that the birds … may have their nests in peace — John Ruskin > III. intransitive verb < the tempest calmed > < the madman calmed down > transitive verb 1. < calm the tempest — John Dryden > 2. < calm feelings excited by civil war — T.M.Whitfield > < calm him down; get him to be reasonable — S.H.Adams > 3. obsolete Synonyms: < Christian faith calmed in his soul the fear of change and death — William Wordsworth > < her also I with gentle dreams have calmed — John Milton > compose, often reflexive, may heighten suggestions of conscious effort, resolution, and fortitude < my child, if ever you were brave and serviceable in your life … you will compose yourself now — Charles Dickens > < a most composed invincible man, in difficulty and distress knowing no discouragement — Thomas Carlyle > quiet and quieten may connote a temporary external calmness in speech or demeanor rather than lasting inner calm < the most unreasonable of Franklin's impulses had now been quieted by this most reasonable of marriages — Carl Van Doren > These words are likely to be used in indicating the effect of actions of persons in authority on others < threats to the physical well-being of the unborn baby can quieten a noisy and uncooperative patient in labour — Lancet > still, now somewhat literary or poetic, stresses the fact of cessation of agitation < flattened, silenced, stilled — Virginia Woolf > < a voice stilled by death > It may suggest more peremptory action than others in this list, connoting a return to quietude induced by power, authority, or awe < the debate was stilled by the crash of guns > < it was Mary who stilled the hideous bawling of Peter — H.G.Wells > lull is the only word in this group that does not imply noticeable previous agitation or excitation. It connotes the somnolence of lullaby, to which it is related < Aiken has lulled the reader with a seductive music and has transported him into the dreamworld of Freudian fantasy — F.O.Matthiessen > It often suggests sleepy relaxation into repose, complacence, unawareness, or apathy when one should be vigilant < we must not let a year or two of prosperity lull us into a false feeling of security — H.S.Truman > soothe suggests bland, gentle mitigation, assuagement, or solace < it [the weather] cool'd their fever'd sleep, and soothed them into slumbers full and deep — John Keats > < when they [babies] wake screaming and find none to soothe them — Charles Lamb > settle stresses the subsiding of swirling agitation < I'll read a bit before supper to settle my mind — Agnes S. Turnbull > < if I can't settle my brains, your next news of me will be that I am locked up — Mary W. Montagu > tranquilize, more than the others in this group, stresses the depth of peace achieved < when contemplation … sends deep into the soul its tranquilizing power — William Wordsworth > IV. now chiefly Scotland V. variant of came |
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