tentative是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 试验性的; 暂时的，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he added, with a tentative smile, as though still afraid of irritating him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few tentative attempts were made to turn the conversation to the events of the day, and a few indiscreet questions were asked; but Muishkin re-plied to everybody with such simplicity and good-humour, and at the same time with so much dignity, and showed such confidence in the good breeding of his guests, that the indiscreet talkers were quickly silenced.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The frantic gesticulations they surprised now and then, the headlong pace after nightfall that swept him upon them round quiet corners, the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity, the taste for twilight that led to the closing of doors, the pulling down of blinds, the extinction of candles and lamps who could agree with such goings on?
-- By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both Hilda and Constance had had their tentative love-affairs by the time they were eighteen.
-- She also helped him in the morning, and soon valeted him completely, even shaving him, in her soft, tentative woman's way.
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：
-- They pressed near to receive her, looking with zest at the stooping blond head with its flower buds, and at the delicate, white, tentative foot that was reaching down to the step of the carriage.
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