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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Rather mountainous at first, and then sloping gently down the eastern side of the Andes into a smooth plain, turfed and graveled quite like a garden."
-- The moment after a ship has passed over the smooth surface, the sea redoubles its violence, and woe to the bark that follows.
-- The heat was already considerable, but not unbearable, and the road was smooth and good, and allowed the cavalcade to make speedy progress.
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：
-- In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that cat-like love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, 'Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.
-- I will go before your horses to smooth the way for them, and will turn the Achaeans in flight.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The platforms of our playground, all shining smooth and worn!
-- At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moon-light.
-- He was ten years old, the eldest son of Big Toomai, and, ac-cording to custom, he would take his father's place on Kala Nag's neck when he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the elephant goad, that had been worn smooth by his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfa-ther.
-- Then we will march on smooth roads, and forget all this hunting.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the scout; 'the lake is as smooth as if the winds had never blown, and I can see along its sheet for miles; there is not so much as the black head of a loon dot-ting the water.'
-- Deprived of his book and his pipe, he was fain to trust to a memory that rarely failed him on such subjects; and breaking forth in a loud and im-passioned strain, he endeavored to smooth his passage into the other world by singing the opening verse of a funeral anthem.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For example, if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
-- With inexpressible hacking and hewing I reduced both the sides of it into chips till it began to be light enough to move; then I turned it, and made one side of it smooth and flat as a board from end to end; then, turning that side down-ward, cut the other side til I brought the plank to be about three inches thick, and smooth on both sides.
-- However, having a fresh gale, I stretched across this eddy, slanting north-west; and in about an hour came within about a mile of the shore, where, it being smooth water, I soon got to land.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Marianne can never keep long from that instrument you know, ma'am," said Elinor, endeavouring to smooth away the offence; "and I do not much wonder at it; for it is the very best toned piano-forte I ever heard."
-- It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they drove along the smooth pavement an occasional carriage passed.
-- Unfortunately for the smooth progression of this affair, Drouet returned.
-- He came lightly in, thinking to smooth over any feeling that might still exist by a kindly word and a ready promise, but Mrs. Hurstwood said nothing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XIX WO or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might Tsay they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He set aside the hatchet and picked up the plane to make the wood smooth and even, but as he drew it to and fro, he heard the same tiny voice.
-- The sea was as smooth as glass.
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