calm的意思|calm的解释-里氏词典

Calm \Calm\ (k[aum]m), a. [Compar. {Calmer} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Calmest} (-[e^]st)]
1. Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still;
quiet; serene; undisturbed. ``Calm was the day.''
--Spenser.

Now all is calm, and fresh, and still. --Bryant.

2. Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or
excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. ``Calm and
sinless peace.'' --Milton. ``With calm attention.''
--Pope.

Such calm old age as conscience pure
And self-commanding hearts ensure. --Keble.

Syn: Still; quiet; undisturbed; tranquil; peaceful; serene;
composed; unruffled; sedate; collected; placid.

Calm \Calm\ (k[aum]m), n. [OE. calme, F. calme, fr. It. or Sp.
calma (cf. Pg. calma heat), prob. fr. LL. cauma heat, fr. Gr.
kay^ma burning heat, fr. kai`ein to burn; either because
during a great heat there is generally also a calm, or
because the hot time of the day obliges us seek for shade and
quiet; cf. {Caustic}]
Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation
or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of
winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. --Mark.
iv. 39.

A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's
own making. --South.

Calm \Calm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Calmed} (k[aum]md); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Calming}.] [Cf. F. calmer. See {Calm}, n.]
1. To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as,
to calm the winds.

To calm the tempest raised by Eolus. --Dryden.

2. To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or
soothe, as the mind or passions.

Passions which seem somewhat calmed. --Atterbury.

Syn: To still; quiet; appease; allay; pacify; tranquilize;
soothe; compose; assuage; check; restrain.

The situation now is calm.
The little blonde boy with a dirt-smudged face was blinking and calm when placed on a gurney and wheeled to a waiting ambulance.
To calm those fears, Mr. Alberthal traveled to Washington to meet with executives of the unit's government systems group, where most of the eight executives who defected to Mr. Perot had worked.
Gorbachev appealed for calm Feb. 26, but after the strife tapered off in Yerevan rioting broke out in the Azerbaijani port of Sumgait and 32 people were killed, 26 of them Armenians.
A six-page manual advises that when an alarm sounds, people should stay calm, gather essentials, lock their homes and head away from the radiation source without speeding.
Grain and soybean futures opened narrowly mixed today on the Chicago Board of Trade in a calm follow-through to the previous session's early run-up and late sell-off.
Even while urging calm, black leaders including Willie Sims of Dade's official Community Relations Board acknowledge that blacks are intently watching the trial.
Twelve-page pink pamphlets are being handed out on street corners across the country, sounding frightening alarms in bold-face type about Ritalin, a prescription drug used for three decades to calm hyperactive children.
"Things are cool and calm," he said. "We're trying to unwind that fire as fast as we can now.
Tuesday's action was relatively calm after the average plummeted 190 points Friday and then bounced back 88 points Monday.
" He called on his supporters to help restore calm.
During the evacuation, he said, residents "were real calm; they were orderly.
Claes joined Islamic leaders in urging Moslems in Belgium to remain calm.
Though heartened by the offer, wary Solidarity activists said they suspected the government was seeking accord only to calm unrest caused by rising inflation and consumer shortages.
To calm market fears following the stock-market crash, the government has offered to repurchase, for a limited period, any of the BP shares at 70 pence apiece.
It will also help calm shareholders' fears that it will throw good money after bad.
The rebels, who are led by the minority Tutsis, are trying to broaden their appeal by calling on the Hutu majority to join them in government. It is not yet clear whether this appeal will calm the fears of a distrustful Hutu community.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sought to calm fears among the NATO allies on Thursday by promising to keep them fully informed on plans to forge a new German state.
How do employees at the Internal Revenue Service keep calm when handling calls from angry taxpayers?
The occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were relatively quiet after one of the calmest weeks since a Palestinian uprising began December 8. Israeli officials, encouraged by the relative calm, have claimed that the protests are fading.
Other mourners tried to calm down protesters, who finally were removed by police.
Fliers threatening the lives of Jewish children here in retaliation for the slayings of Palestinians have been turned up in Brooklyn and police are trying to calm worried parents.
She said the passengers remained calm and none were injured because they were all in their seats in preparation for landing.
The dollar fell against major foreign currencies today in calm, early European trading.
Election officials have ordered all campaigning to cease at midnight in order to establish calm.
Security officials said the city of 700,000 was calm.
The interim arrangements could help calm the atmosphere.
"No other world city is characterized by as total a calm, as total an absence of political passion in matters of international politics," former U.S. diplomat George Wynne wrote during his 1970s posting in Geneva.
"Things are very calm right now, people are just twiddling their thumbs and watching the Bundesbank," one trader said.
Romanians have achieved a fragile democracy a year after the bloody fall of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, but not the prosperity and calm they hoped it would bring.

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