gently是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 文雅地， 有礼貌地； 轻轻地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After which she gently chid her daughterAnnie, for not being more demonstrative when such kindnesseswere showered, for her sake, on her old playfellow; andentertained us with some particulars concerning other deservingmembers of her family, whom it was desirable to set on theirdeserving legs.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel's bosom thrilled gently as he thus slipped under the notice of the assembly the inner-most subject of his heart.
-- Boldwood gently tossed Bathsheba into the saddle, and before they turned away she again spoke out to Oak with the same dominative and tantalizing graciousness.
-- Her own instantly fell as gently as snowflakes.
-- By this arrangement she could trot Dainty gently all the day, reach Liddy at Yalbury in the evening, and come home to Weatherbury with her whenever they chose so nobody would know she had been to Bath at all.
-- Gabriel soon perceived a languor in the movements of his mistress up and down, and he said to her, gently as a mother "I think you had better go indoors now, you are tired.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his figure, manner, and his whole bearing it was easy to see that he had either come of a noble family, or that, from his earliest childhood, he had been gently bred.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.
-- Everything was silent except the leaves of the trees, which were gently agitated by the wind; the night was nearly dark, and the scene would have been sol-emn and affecting even to an uninterested observer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had put Savannah and its memories behind her when she leftthat gently mannered city by the sea, and, from the moment of her arrival in the County, north Georgia was her home.
-- Here, excitement never entered in,voices were never raised, everyone deferred gently to the opinions of others, and, in the end, the black grizzledautocrat in the kitchen had his way.
-- Then it was laid gently on the pile of jewelry.
-- They fell into a clever girl's hand just like the ripe peaches at Tara when the trees were gently shaken.
-- "Not yet," she said, as gently as the constriction of her throat would permit, "but we will be, soon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yet," said Mr. Pumblechook, leading the company gently back to the theme from which they had strayed, "Pork--regarded as biled--is rich, too; ain't it?"
-- She put her hand, which was a comfortable hand though roughened by work, upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair.
-- He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out.
-- Then, he gently let it sink upon his breast again, with his own hands lying on it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day long she dared not go out of doors, and when bedtime had come, the witch's daughter got into bed first, so as to lie at the far side, but when she was asleep, the other pushed her gently to the front, and took for herself the place at the back, close by the wall.
-- 'Then I will try my skill,' said the thief, and went and stole her away from under the dragon, so qui-256 Grimms' Fairy Talesetly and gently that the beast did not know it, but went on snoring.
-- But the huntsman had heard all they said; and as soon as they were gone, he climbed to the top of the mountain, and when he had sat there a short time a cloud came rolling around him, and caught him in a whirl-wind and bore him along for some time, till it settled in a garden, and he fell quite gently to the ground amongst the greens and cabbages.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
-- The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, espe-cially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on 28 Gulliver's Travelsthe ground, and away he ran.
-- His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, was less daunted than I could expect: he ordered me to return it into the scabbard, and cast it on the ground as gently as I could, about six feet from the end of my chain.
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