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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
-- I thought he would be more glad if I came upon him with his breakfast, in that unexpected manner, so I went forward softly and touched him on the shoulder.
-- Then she softly patted my shoulder in a soothing way, while with my face upon my sleeve I cried a little,--exactly as I had done in the brewery yard,--and felt vaguely convinced that I was very much ill-used by somebody, or by everybody; I can't say which.
-- At length little Jane, perceiving its young brains to be imperilled, softly left her place, and with many small artifices coaxed the dangerous weapon away.
-- Assured of this, I softly removed the key to the outside of his door, and turned it on him before I again sat down by the fire.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans did not speak so softly but the horseman 10 Grimms' Fairy Talesheard it all, and said, 'Well, friend, why do you go on foot then?'
-- Early in the morning, before it was quite light, and when nobody was stirring in the inn, Chanticleer awakened his wife, and, fetching the egg, they pecked a hole in it, ate it up, and threw the shells into the fireplace: they then went to the pin and needle, who were fast asleep, and seizing them by the heads, stuck one into the landlord's easy chair and the other into his handkerchief; and, having done this, they crept away as softly as possible.
-- So they came back and whispered softly to him, saying, 'Now let us have no more of your roguish jokes; but throw us out some of the money.'
-- As soon as he had fallen asleep, howev- 307er, she drew the ring from his finger, and crept softly away, and wished herself and her son at home in their kingdom.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- He then placed me softly on the ground upon all fours, but I got immediately up, and walked slowly backward and forward, to let those people see I had no intent to run away.
-- But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of 282 Gulliver's Travelstheir flight.
-- But this animal seemed to receive my civilities with disdain, shook his head, and bent his brows, softly raising up his right fore-foot to remove my hand.
-- He consented, and I immedi-ately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she inquired softly of Henery Fray.
-- Somebody's some woman's hand had travelled softly over the paper bearing his name; her unrevealed eyes had watched every curve as she formed it; her brain had seen him in imagination the while.
-- Bathsheba softly tugged again, but to no purpose.
-- A vehicle of some kind was softly creeping along the grassy margin of the lane.
-- When her attendant was unconscious and softly breathing in the next room, the mistress of the house was still looking out of the window at the faint gleam spreading from among the trees not in a steady shine, but blinking like a revolving coast-light, though this appearance failed to suggest to her that a person was passing and repassing in front of it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy waddled back into the hall and Scarlett heard her call softly up the stairwell to the upstairs maid.
-- Scarlett heard the stairs groan and she got softly to her feet.
-- "Take my place at the table, dear," said Ellen, patting Scarlett's cheek softly with a mittened hand.
-- But tonight became of the exaltationof her own spirit, Scarlett found in the whole ceremonial, the softly spoken words, the murmur of the responses, asurpassing beauty beyond any that she had ever experienced before.
-- Then he was gone before she could speak again, closing the door softly behind him.
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