smooth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 光滑的, 平稳的 v. 使光滑, 使平稳，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said much praise and many comments undoubt-ing decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerable; but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
-- And for a little while she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.
-- His companions suggested only what could palliate imprudence, or smooth objections; and by the time they had talked it all over to-gether, and he had talked it all over again with Emma, in their walk back to Hartfield, he was become perfectly rec-onciled, and not far from thinking it the very best thing that Frank could possibly have done.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.
-- The river would have been seen by day to be of that deep smooth sort which races middle and sides with the same gliding precision, any irregularities of speed being immediately corrected by a small whirlpool.
-- Boldwood was listlessly noting how the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow, till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble; how, in some portions of the slope, withered grass-bents, encased in icicles, bristled through the smooth wan coverlet in the twisted and curved shapes of old Venetian glass; and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.
-- A few clear and thread-like horizontal lines were the only interruption to the otherwise smooth surface of his large forehead.
-- Then Bathsheba kissed Liddy, and all was smooth again.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was 265full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage ex-hibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Youknow he always can smooth her down."
-- "I must run upstairs and smooth my hair," she told Stuart and Brent, who were trying to get her cornered from thecrowd.
-- She crossed the room to the mirror and parted her smooth hair approvingly.
-- I wouldn'thave ever let you come upon this porch at all, if I hadn't been feeling so blue and " "Sit down and smooth your ruffled fur," he said, and his voice changed.
-- "You're a long way from there," said Scarlett, trying to smooth back her untidy hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe was a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites.
-- Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame.
-- The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off.
-- It was a smooth way of going on, perhaps, in respect of saving trouble; but it had the appearance of being expensive, for the servants felt it a duty they owed to themselves to be nice in their eating and drinking, and to keep a deal of company downstairs.
-- Chapter XXXVIt was the first time that a grave had opened in my road of life, and the gap it made in the smooth ground was wonderful.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now some ducks were sitting together quietly by a brook and taking their rest; and, whilst they were making their feathers smooth with their bills, they were having a con-fidential conversation together.
-- I had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh!Ugh!how odious you are!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six hundred beds of the com-mon measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four dou-ble: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
-- I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it: and the next day the waggoners arrived with it, but not in a very good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was dragged along for above half an Eng-lish mile; but, the ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I expected.
-- 141 Another day, Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass-plot to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess.
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