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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only the silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven.
-- He had scarcely swallowed the last spoonful, when there came a soft rap at the door.
-- said Sikes, putting his other hand to Oliver's throat; 'if he speaks ever so soft a word, hold him!D'ye mind!'
-- She had just tasted her first cup, when she was disturbed by a soft tap at the room-door.
-- It was a round table; and as Mrs. Corney and Mr. Bumble had been sitting opposite each other, with no great space between them, and fronting the fire, it will be seen that Mr. Bumble, in receding from the fire, and still keeping at the table, increased the distance between himself and Mrs. Corney; which proceeding, some prudent readers will doubtless be disposed to admire, and to consider an act of great heroism on Mr. Bumble's part: he being in some sort tempted by time, place, and opportunity, to give utterance to certain soft nothings, which however well they may become the lips of the light and thoughtless, do seem immeasurably beneath the dignity of judges of the land, members of parliament, ministers of state, lord mayors, and other great public functionaries, but more particularly beneath the stateliness and gravity of a beadle: who (as is well known) should be the sternest and most inflexible among them all.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of this I had my tent always standing, being a piece of a sail spread over poles, set up for that purpose, and which never wanted any repair or renewing; and under this I had made me a squab or couch with the skins of the crea-tures I had killed, and with other soft things, and a blanket laid on them, such as belonged to our sea-bedding, which I had saved; and a great watch-coat to cover me.
-- a thou-sand times; and my desires were so moved by it, that when I spoke the words my hands would clinch together, and my fingers would press the palms of my hands, so that if I had had any soft thing in my hand I should have crushed it in-voluntarily; and the teeth in my head would strike together, and set against one another so strong, that for some time I could not part them again.
-- They had left two men in the boat, who, as I found afterwards, having drunk a little too much brandy, fell asleep; however, one of them waking a little sooner than the other and finding the boat too fast aground for him to stir it, hallooed out for the rest, who were strag-gling about: upon which they all soon came to the boat: but it was past all their strength to launch her, the boat being very heavy, and the shore on that side being a soft oozy sand, almost like a quicksand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were soft and noiseless, and he got his fingers about them and crumpled them up in his hand.
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
-- Drouet wore patent leather but Carrie could not help feeling that there was a distinction in favour of the soft leather, where all else was so rich.
-- "Ah, such little feet," said the leather of the soft new shoes; "how effectively I cover them.
-- "That is it," he said, his voice dropping to a soft minor, "I know too much of the world."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed.
-- The next minute I was a- spinning down stream soft but quick in the shade of the bank.
-- Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
-- The duke had to learn him over and over again how to say every speech; and he made him sigh, and put his hand on his heart, and after a while he said he done it pretty well; 'only,' he says, 'you mustn't bellow out ROMEO!that way, like a bull you must say it soft and sick and languishy, so R-o-o-meo!that is the idea; for Juliet's a dear sweet mere child of a girl, you know, and she doesn't bray like a jackass.'
-- But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery go!
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he walked, Pinocchio noticed a tiny insect glimmering on the trunk of a tree, a small being that glowed with a pale, soft light.
-- In a few minutes, a lovely little coach, made of glass, with lining as soft as whipped cream and chocolate pudding, and stuffed with canary feathers, pulled out of the stable.
-- "If tonight it should happen to rain," said the Farmer, "you can sleep in that little doghouse near-by, where you will find plenty of straw for a soft bed.
-- A queer sound could be heard, soft as a little bell, and faint and muffled like the buzz of a far-away mosquito.
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