softly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 柔软地； 温柔地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.
-- This idea taking full possession of his mind, he got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to the door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- softly over the coach roof.
-- There was an immediate dispersal for these restoratives, and she softly laid the patient on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness: calling her 'my precious!'
-- 'My father,' said Lucie, softly laying her hand on his.
-- Her uncertainty lasted but a moment; she hurried back, and tapped at his door, and softly called to him.
-- They all dropped softly on the ground within the gate, and lay there a little listening perhaps.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm with child," she said, softly and deliberately.
-- The high grass softly turned about the wheels and the horse's legs, leaving its seeds clinging to the wet axles and spokes of the wheels.
-- No one, looking at his white hands, with their swollen veins and long fingers, so softly stroking the edges of the white paper that lay before him, and at the air of weariness with which his head drooped on one side, would have suspected that in a few minutes a torrent of words would flow from his lips that would arouse a fearful storm, set the members shouting and attacking one another, and force the president to call for order.
-- For a minute he was still, and with the same despondent face gazed at the baby; but all at once a smile, that moved his hair and the skin of his forehead, came out on his face, and he went as softly out of the room.
-- "I can't explain," Levin said softly and deliberately, trying to control the trembling of his jaw; "and you'd better not ask."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix rubbed his hands softly with satisfaction; if Phileas Fogg could be detained in Calcutta a week, it would be more than time for the warrant to arrive.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he closed the door he was touched by this cramped refuge, with its camp-beds and photographs from home and softly wrinkled linen.
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：
-- Drawing a breath, pressing his hand against his throb-bing heart, and once more feeling for the axe and setting it straight, he began softly and cautiously ascending the stairs, listening every minute.
-- Once more he softly touched the bell which gave one tinkle, then gently, as though reflecting and looking about him, began touching the door-handle pull-ing it and letting it go to make sure once more that it was only fastened by the hook.
-- With a sense of comfort he nestled his head into the pillow, wrapped more closely about him the soft, wadded quilt which had replaced the old, ragged greatcoat, sighed softly and sank into a deep, sound, refreshing sleep.
-- Then he softly unlatched the door, went out, slipped downstairs and glanced in at the open kitchen door.
-- 'It's wonderful that he has recovered consciousness,' the doctor whispered softly to Raskolnikov.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked as softly as the Ghostin Hamlet, and more slowly.
-- Mr. Chillip, looking mildly at my aunt with his head on one side,and making her a little bow, said, in allusion to the jewellers'cotton, as he softly touched his left ear'Some local irritationma'am?'
-- Icould hear Peggotty crying softly on her side of the keyhole, as Iwas doing on mine, before she answered.
-- 79Mr. Mell having left me while he took his irreparable bootsupstairs, I went softly to the upper end of the room, observing allthis as I crept along.
-- I sit with my eyeon Mr. Creakle, blinking at him like a young owl; when sleepoverpowers me for a minute, he still looms through my slumber,ruling those ciphering-books, until he softly comes behind me andwakes me to plainer perception of him, with a red ridge across myback.
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