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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now leaning on the netting of the forecastle, now on the taffrail, I devoured with eagerness the soft foam which whitened the sea as far as the eye could reach; and how often have I shared the emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious whale raised its black back above the waves!The poop of the vessel was crowded on a moment.
-- It was evidently a hard, impenetrable body, and not the soft substance that forms the bodies of the great marine mammalia.
-- The man with the soft calm eyes listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; but nothing in his countenance indicated that he had understood my story.
-- A luminous ceiling, decorated with light arabesques, shed a soft clear light over all the marvels accumulated in this museum.
-- In the first group, the tubipores, were gorgones arranged like a fan, soft sponges of Syria, ises of the Moluccas, pennatules, an admirable virgularia of the Norwegian seas, variegated unbellulairae, alcyonariae, a whole series of madrepores, which my master Milne Edwards has so cleverly classified, amongst which I remarked some wonderful flabellinae oculinae of the Island of Bourbon, the "Neptune's car" of the Antilles, superb varieties of corals in short, every species of those curious polypi of which entire islands are formed, which will one day become continents.
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:
-- She was aware of her grass-green stockings, her large grass-green velour hat, her full soft coat, of a strong blue colour.
-- The class-room was distinct and hard, a strange place after the soft dim magic that filled it before he came.
-- On the Saturday it rained, a soft drizzling rain that held off at times.
-- Her appearance was simple and complete, really beautiful, because of her regularity and form, her soft dark hair falling full and level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck and the simple, rich-coloured smock hanging on her slender shoulders.
-- Gerald watched her dark, soft hair swing over her ears.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw ah!it was beautiful a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers.
-- Mrs. Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.
-- The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
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:
-- Such a soft sweet voice it had!
-- So they walked on together though the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms.
-- she cried as she bounded across,and threw herself down to rest on a lawn as soft as moss, with little flower-beds dotted about it here and there.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ah, but I've lived easy in the meantime, never denied myself o' nothing heart desires, and slep' soft and ate dainty all my days but when at sea.
-- Ball after ball flew over or fell short or kicked up the sand in the enclosure, but they had to fire so high that the shot fell dead and buried itself in the soft sand.
-- What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays.
-- I had not time to be afraid, but as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice upon one side, and missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled headlong down the slope.
-- Then I lashed the tiller and went below to my own chest, where I got a soft silk handkerchief of my mother's.
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