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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the prince softly and sadly, and bend-ing his head down, quite unconscious of the fact that Aglaya was gazing at him with eyes which burned like live coals.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they saw Helen coming towards the tower, they said softly to one another, 'Small wonder that Trojans and Achaeans should endure so much and so long, for the sake of a woman so marvellously and divinely lovely.
-- The messen-ger of Jove stood by Priam and spoke softly to him, but fear fell upon him as she did so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went quite softly to the kitchen, and was too preoccupied to ask Millie what she was messing about with now, when she got there.
-- "Full of extra-ordinary asses," he said softly to himself.
-- Kemp closed the door softly behind him, and the key was turned upon him forthwith.
-- I turned down the gas again, stepped out of the window on the cistern cover, very softly lowered the sash, and sat down, secure and invisible, but quivering with anger, to watch events.
-- Then, while they were trying to explain the smash, I dodged out of the room and went softly downstairs.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Softly now, softly!It is all over.'
-- he said, at last, softly to his mother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the night had worn away thus far (and seldom now until it had) the child would close the window, and steal softly down stairs, thinking as she went that if one of those hideous faces below, which often mingled with her dreams, were to meet her by the way, rendering itself visible by some strange light of its own, how terrified she would be.
-- That the conviction was an unwelcome one, and that he was by no means willing to yield to it, was apparent from his reluctance to quit the spot; from the tardy steps with which he often left it, still looking over his shoulder at the same window; and from the precipitation with which he as often returned, when a fancied noise or the changing and imperfect light induced him to suppose it had been softly raised.
-- Having growled forth these, and a great many other threats of the same nature, he coiled himself once more in the child's little bed, and Nell crept softly up the stairs.
-- Very early next morning, Short fulfilled his promise, and knocking softly at her door, entreated that she would get up directly, as the proprietor of the dogs was still snoring, and if they lost no time they might get a good deal in advance both of him and the conjuror, who was talking in his sleep, and from what he could be heard to say, appeared to be balancing a donkey in his dreams.
-- As the morning wore on, the tents assumed a gayer and more brilliant appearance, and long lines of carriages came rolling softly on the turf.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to her; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree so she stood and softly repeated to herself: 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King's horses and all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.'
-- You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch!But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like She's a dear good creature,' he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was one January morning, very early a pinching, frosty morning the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
-- I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again and led me as softly as before among the billows.
-- The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was well warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro.
-- It seemed shallow enough, and holding the cut hawser in both hands for a last security, I let myself drop softly overboard.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At half-past eight the Nautilus boat ran softly aground on a heavy sand, after having happily passed the coral reef that surrounds the Island of Gilboa.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was made of rich peach-coloured cr脙陋pe-de-chine, that hung heavily and softly from her young throat and her slender wrists.
-- Again the man-servant who invariably disappeared between the hours of ten and twelve at night came in silently and inscrutably with tea, bending in a slow, strange, leopard-like fashion to put the tray softly on the table.
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