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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length one of them called out in a clear, polite, smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at least that the cadence might be more agreeable to his ears.
-- The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, ex-tending the whole length on one side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall very well know how to manage and smooth old Bounderby!'
-- There was a sweep of some half-mile between the lodge and the house, and he was riding along at a foot pace over the smooth gravel, once Nickits's, when Mr. Bounderby burst out of the shrubbery, with such violence as to make his horse shy across the road.
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：
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- Till his hands reached blindly down and felt for her, and felt under the clothing to where she was smooth and warm.
-- Mrs Bolton looked into the man's face, that was smooth and new-looking with love.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.
-- If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward.
-- The regular breathing still continuing, he put his smooth white hand (such a treacherous hand it looked, as it went creeping from him!)
-- The figure of a man advanced in life, whose smooth grey eyebrows seemed to move to the ticking as the fire-light flickered on them, sat in an arm-chair, with his list shoes on the rug, and his thumbs slowly revolving over one another.
-- There was the same smooth face and forehead, the same calm blue eye, the same placid air.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So do I, it was so smooth and pretty.
-- A pleasant green field, with three wide-spreading oaks in the middle and a smooth strip of turf for croquet.
-- No one was in sight, the smooth road sloped invitingly before her, and finding the temptation irresistible, Jo darted away, soon leaving hat and comb behind her and scattering hairpins as she ran.
-- My friends find forme a place in a college, where I teach as at home, and earn enough to make the way smooth for Franz and Emil.
-- 'Meg' on the first lid, smooth and fair.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea; when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth water behind.
-- In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods.
-- "And can'st thou make it all smooth again, blacksmith, after such hard usage as it had?"
-- The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.
-- Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme!did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm lasted, and indeed some time after; but the next day the wind was abated, and the sea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it; however, I was very grave for all that day, being also a little sea-sick still; but towards night the weather cleared up, the wind was quite over, and a charm-ing fine evening followed; the sun went down perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.
-- The only hope that could rationally give us the least shadow of expectation was, if we might find some bay or gulf, or the mouth of some river, where by great chance we might have run our boat in, or got under the lee of the land, and perhaps made smooth water.
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