softness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 温和， 柔和； 软弱，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black velvet of her locket nestled with special softness round her neck.
-- He looked more robust, had let his whiskers grow, but was still the same graceful creature, whose face and figure were even more striking from their softness and nobility than their beauty.
-- On the contrary, he felt that Sviazhsky was right, that the whole business was of little value, and he saw the wonderful softness and consideration with which Sviazhsky avoided fully expressing his correct view.
-- All her face would be visible, she would smile, she would hug him, he would sniff her fragrance, feel the softness of her arms, and cry with happiness, just as he had one evening lain on her lap while she tickled him, and he laughed and bit her white, ring-covered fingers.
-- In her voice, as in her eyes, there was that softness and gravity which is found in people continually concentrated on some cherished pursuit.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They did not acknowledge, as they ambled back into Mohalis, that the incident had occurred, but there was softness in their voices and without impatience now she heard his denunciation of Professor Robertshaw as a phonograph, and he listened to her remarks on the shallowness and vulgarity of Dr. Norman Brumfit, that sprightly English instructor.
-- The softness of her sleeve was agitating to his hand.
-- Martin had heard about the superiority of poverty to luxury, but after the lunch-wagons of Mohalis, after twelve years of helping Leora check the laundry and worry about the price of steak, after a life of waiting in the slush for trolleys, it was not at all dismaying to have a valet who produced shirts automatically; not at all degrading to come to meals which were always interesting, and, in the discretion of his car, to lean an aching head against softness and think how clever he was.
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：
-- Av-dotya Romanovna was remarkably good looking; she was tall, strikingly well-proportioned, strong and self-reliant the latter quality was apparent in every gesture, though it did not in the least detract from the grace and softness of her movements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She still preserved her proud manner, but there was a touchof softness in her voice, as she answered'I justify nothing.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was certainly never brilliant, but she would not allow it to have a sickly hue in general; and there was a softness and delicacy in her skin which gave peculiar elegance to the character of her face.'
-- I heard a good deal of Colonel Campbell's taste at Weymouth; and the softness of the upper notes I am sure is exactly what he and all that party would particularly prize.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She became conscious of something touching her hand; it was softness and it was warmth.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor girl!She wept when she quit-ted our house; she was much altered since the death of my aunt; grief had given softness and a winning mildness to her manners which had before been remarkable for vivac-ity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stroked my right hand, seeming to admire the softness and colour; but he squeezed it so hard between his hoof and his pastern, that I was forced to roar; after which they both touched me with all possible tenderness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they eyed the stranger in passing, they eyed him with borrowing eyes hungry, sharp, speculative as to his softness if they were accredited to him, and the likelihood of his standing something handsome.
-- There really was a genuineness in the poor fellow, and a contrast between the hardness of his hat and the softness of his heart (albeit, perhaps, of his head, too), that was moving.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, when he re-membered Jo as she sat with the little child in her lap and that new softness in her face, he leaned his head on his hands a minute, and then roamed about the room, as if in search of something that he could not find.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was plain to them all that Colonel Fitzwilliam came because he had pleasure in their society, a persuasion which of course recommended him still more; and Elizabeth was reminded by her own satisfaction in being with him, as well as by his evident admiration of her, of her former favourite George Wickham; and though, in comparing them, she saw there was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam's man-ners, she believed he might have the best informed mind.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a very good countenance, not a fierce and surly aspect, but seemed to have something very manly in his face; and yet he had all the sweetness and softness of a European in his countenance, too, especially when he smiled.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ventured Carrie, emboldened by a certain softness in the man's manner and his simplicity of address.
-- There was a softness in the air which speaks with an infinite delicacy of feeling to the flesh as well as to the soul.
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