soft是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 软的； 温柔的； 细嫩的， 光滑的； 不含酒精的，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me.
-- She was thinner and had lost much of that heavenly vi-vacity that had before charmed me; but her gentleness and soft looks of compassion made her a more fit companion for 233one blasted and miserable as I was.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons, mysterious, a littlesinister, the soughing pines seeming to wait with an age-old patience, to threaten with soft sighs: "Be careful!Becareful!We had you once.
-- From within the house floatedthe soft voice of Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara, as she called to the little black girl who carried her basket of keys.
-- The horses, feeling slackreins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass, and the patient hounds lay down again in the soft reddust and looked up longingly at the chimney swallows circling in the gathering dusk.
-- She had wanted him, in that first instant, wanted him as simply and unreasoningly as she wanted food to eat,horses to ride and a soft bed on which to lay herself.
-- It had never occurred to him that onlyone voice was obeyed on the plantation the soft voice of his wife Ellen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It doubled itself up the wrong way over Mrs. Pocket's arm, exhibited a pair of knitted shoes and dimpled ankles to the company in lieu of its soft face, and was carried out in the highest state of mutiny.
-- You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing.
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
-- But--it's a flowing so soft and pleasant through the water, p'raps, as makes me think it--I was a thinking through my smoke just then, that we can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of.
-- I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby's, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and put his hand into his pocket, brought out the soft cheese, and pressed it until the liquid ran out of it.
-- Then a soft voice cried from the parlour: 'Nibble, nibble, gnaw, Who is nibbling at my little house?'
-- Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.
-- At last, when she came to the youngest, a soft voice cried: 'Dear mother, I am in the clock-case.'
-- Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, 'You can sew any-254 Grimms' Fairy Talesthing with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.
-- I assured him, 'that I was as well shaped as most of my age; but the younger, and the females, were much more soft and tender, and the skins of the latter generally as white as milk.'
-- He said, 'I differed indeed from other Yahoos, being much more cleanly, and not altogether so deformed; but, in point of real advantage, he thought I differed for the worse: that my nails were of no use either to my fore or hinder feet; as to my fore feet, he could not properly call them by that name, for he never observed me to walk upon them; that they were too soft to bear the ground; that I generally went with them uncovered; neither was the covering I sometimes wore on them of the same shape, or so strong as that on my feet behind: that I could not walk with any security, for if either of my hinder feet slipped, I must inevitably fail.'
-- He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones, without a covering made from the skin of some other brute; that my whole body wanted a fence against heat and cold, which I was forced to put on and off every day, with tediousness and trouble: and lastly, that he observed every animal in this country naturally to abhor the Yahoos, whom the weaker avoided, and the stronger drove from them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put out her hand a pretty little soft hand; and her fingers closed upon her brother's, as if she would have carried them to her lips.
-- Reposing in the sunlight, with the fragrance of his eastern pipe about him, and the dreamy smoke vanishing into the air, so rich and soft with summer odours, he reckoned up his advantages as an idle winner might count his gains.
-- It was well that soft touch came upon her neck, and that she understood herself to be supposed to have fallen asleep.
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