stillness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 寂静， 无声，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came outside his tent and said, 'Why do you go thus alone about the host, and along the line of the ships in the stillness of the night?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tonight when Atlanta was so quiet, she could close her eyes and imagine she was back in the rural stillness ofTara and that life was unchanged, unchanging.
-- The stillness that greeted her seemed even more sinister this morning than on any of the mornings of the queerquiet week preceding it.
-- But a stillness as of death hung over the plantation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sheep stopped in their eating and looked timidly at us; and the cattle, their heads turned from the wind and sleet, stared angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except these things, and the shudder of the dying day in every blade of grass, there was no break in the bleak stillness of the marshes.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude, and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk flying over it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, when the darkness and stillness had seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the bell at the gate.
-- The wide prospect, so beautiful in its stillness but a few minutes ago, almost carried despair to her brave heart, as she rose and looked all round her, seeing no help.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still she thought the most beautiful part of her was the long-sloping fall of the haunches from the socket of the back, and the slumberous, round stillness of the buttocks.
-- His very stillness was peaceful.
-- How beautiful he felt, how pure in tissue!How lovely, how lovely, strong, and yet pure and delicate, such stillness of the sensitive body!Such utter stillness of potency and delicate flesh.
-- It seemed so still, like him, with a curious inward stillness that made her want to clutch it, as if she could not reach it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this crowning unreality, where all the streets were paved with water, and where the deathlike stillness of the days and nights was broken by no sound but the softened ringing of church-bells, the rippling of the current, and the cry of the gondoliers turning the corners of the flowing streets, Little Dorrit, quite lost by her task being done, sat down to muse.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house, while nodding Hannah mounted guard at the door.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
-- Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him Requin.
-- But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not until he was left alone in the silence and stillness of the gloomy workshop of the undertaker, that Oliver gave way to the feelings which the day's treatment may be supposed likely to have awakened in a mere child.
-- The darkness and the deep stillness of the room were very solemn; as they brought into the boy's mind the thought that death had been hovering there, for many days and nights, and might yet fill it with the gloom and dread of his awful presence, he turned his face upon the pillow, and fervently prayed to Heaven.
-- 'Fagin,' said Sikes, abruptly breaking the stillness that prevailed; 'is it worth fifty shiners extra, if it's safely done from the outside?'
-- Scared by the sudden breaking of the dead stillness of the place, and by a loud cry which followed it, Oliver let his lantern fall, and knew not whether to advance or fly.
-- At length, a low cry of pain broke the stillness that prevailed; and uttering it, the boy awoke.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stillness was awful creepy and uncom- fortable.
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