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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But softly as the name was breathed, Mary Grant, already awakened by the sounds in the hut, slipped over toward Glenarvan, and seizing the hand, all stained with earth, she covered it with kisses.
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：
-- It was thrown by a man who walked softly down the passage with a candle held in his hand.
-- Softly we stole along until we had come into the other wing.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do desire it,' murmured Gania, softly but firmly, lower-ing his eyes; and he relapsed into gloomy silence.
-- All came forward with congratulations; even those of Rogojin's party who had re-treated into the next room, now crept softly back to look on.
-- He took a knife, and when his friend turned his back, he came up softly behind, raised his eyes to heaven, crossed himself, and saying earnestly 'God forgive me, for Christ's sake!'
-- He invariably began by opening the door a crack and peering in to see if the prince was there, or if he had escaped; then he would creep softly up to the armchair, sometimes making Muish-kin jump by his sudden appearance.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sullenly taking the offered lantern, old Fleece limped across the deck to the bulwarks; and then, with one hand dropping his light low over the sea, so as to get a good view of his congregation, with the other hand he solemnly flourished his tongs, and leaning far over the side in a mumbling voice began addressing the sharks, while Stubb, softly crawling behind, overheard all that was said.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He softly reclosed the door.
-- There was no other person in the room but the old Jew, who was boiling some coffee in a saucepan for breakfast, and whistling softly to himself as he stirred it round and round, with an iron spoon.
-- Entering by the back way, she tapped softly with the key at one of the cell-doors, and listened.
-- A noise, as if a sash window were gently raised, was heard; and soon afterwards the door softly opened.
-- Spiders had built their webs in the angles of the walls and ceilings; and sometimes, when Oliver walked softly into a room, the mice would scamper across the floor, and run back terrified to their holes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The master, though vigilant in the business of preserving the ship, yet as he went in and out of his cabin by me, I could hear him softly to himself say, sev-eral times, 'Lord be merciful to us!we shall be all lost!we shall be all undone!'
-- Xury, whose eyes were more about him than it seems mine were, calls softly to me, and tells me that we had best go farther off the shore; 'For,' says he, 'look, yonder lies a dreadful monster on the side of that hillock, fast asleep.'
-- When the three persons came to the creek, I found that two of them could swim, but the third could not, and that, stand-ing on the other side, he looked at the others, but went no farther, and soon after went softly back again; which, as it happened, was very well for him in the end.
-- Here I called softly to Friday, and showing him a great tree which was just at the corner of the wood, I bade him go to the tree, and bring me word if he could see there plainly what they were doing.
-- But Friday, a lusty, strong fellow, took the Spaniard upon his back, and carried him away to the boat, and set him down softly upon the side or gunnel of the canoe, with his feet in the inside of it; and then lifting him quite in, he set him close to his father; and presently stepping out again, launched the boat off, and paddled it along the shore faster than I could walk, though the wind blew pretty hard too; so he brought them both safe into our creek, and leaving them in the boat, ran away to fetch the other canoe.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By way of further conclusion, her head lay softly upon his shoulder.
-- "Now," continued Mr. Withers, swaying his derby hat softly and beating one of his polished shoes upon the floor, "I want to arrange, if possible, to have you come and stop at the Wellington.
-- His old wet, cracked hat he laid softly upon the table.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two figures leaped toward him as softly as if they were ghosts.
-- With your strong beak, break the knot which holds him tied, take him down, and lay him softly on the grass at the foot of the oak."
-- Meanwhile, Alidoro, as soon as he had found the road which led to the village, stopped and dropped Pinocchio softly to the ground.
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