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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, no, you needn't do anything of the sort; you mustn't hint gently at all.
-- He then approached the prince, and gently helped him to rise, and led him towards the bed.
-- The prince stretched out a trembling hand and gently stroked his hair and his cheeks he could do nothing more.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My wife was even now gently urging me to battle, and I hold it better that I should go, for victory is ever fickle.
-- He took the old man's hand and moved him gently away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently but firmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I let his head fall gently upon the rough pillow I had made for him, and stood up.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew the coast perfectly well, so about midnight, when he felt himself gently bumped on a weed-bed, he said, 'Hm, tide's running strong tonight,' and turning over under water opened his eyes slowly and stretched.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he felt the fingers of Heyward moving gently along his own naked arm, he struck up the limb of the young man, and, uttering a piercing cry, he darted beneath it, and plunged, at a single bound, into the opposite thicket.
-- The young Indian pointed toward his rude hut when his labor was ended; and Hey- ward, who understood the meaning of the silent gestures, gently urged Munro to enter.
-- The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.
-- Duncan, observing that she trembled in a manner which betrayed her inability to stand, gently induced her to be seated, while he recounted those leading incidents which it has been our task to accord.
-- 'And for me, too,' continued the youth, gently pressing the hand he held in both his own.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, therefore, made his advances in a quiet and gently insinuating manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking a small, rough stone, he wiped it carefully, and with a beating heart, holding his breath, he gently rubbed the match.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man paused a moment while it was gently closed and fastened on the inside, and satisfied that this was done, walked on at a slow pace.
-- At length the day broke, and poor Mrs Quilp, shivering with cold of early morning and harassed by fatigue and want of sleep, was discovered sitting patiently on her chair, raising her eyes at intervals in mute appeal to the compassion and clemency of her lord, and gently reminding him by an occasion cough that she was still unpardoned and that her penance had been of long duration.
-- The child felt it, but had no doubts or misgiving, and putting her hand in his, led him gently away.
-- After bidding the old man good night, Nell retired to her poor garret, but had scarcely closed the door, when it was gently tapped at.
-- The child bore upon her arm the little basket with her flowers, and sometimes stopped, with timid and modest looks, to offer them at some gay carriage; but alas!there were many bolder beggars there, gipsies who promised husbands, and other adepts in their trade, and although some ladies smiled gently as they shook their heads, and others cried to the gentlemen beside them 'See, what a pretty face!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You must rise," he added, gently and courteously, seeing Maslova still in her seat.
-- "You should have said so," again very gently said the presiding justice.
-- "All right----" The inspector rose and gently turning the girl aside, walked into the vestibule.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here.
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