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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, having given her word like a man, she and Ursula entered the frail craft, and pushed gently off.
-- Ursula watched the full, gathered lips of the man gently touch those of the boy, so gently.
-- "I'm glad you bought them," she said, putting her hand, half unwillingly, gently on his arm.
-- The dead man lay in repose, as if gently asleep, so gently, so peacefully, like a young man sleeping in purity.
-- Then again he drew the latch back, and very gently pushed the door.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.
-- "I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round.
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：
-- Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.
-- She just kept the tips of her fingers on the hand-rail, and floated gently down without even touching the stairs with her feet; then she floated on through the hall, and would have gone straight out at the door in the same way, if she hadn't caught hold of the door-post.
-- 'It can't go straight, you know, if you pin it all on one side,' Alice said, as she gently put it right for her; 'and, dear me, what a state your hair is in!'
-- This offended Alice a little, so there was no more conversation for a minute or two, while the boat glided gently on, sometimes among beds of weeds (which made the oars stick fast in the water, worse then ever), and sometimes under trees, but always with the same tall river-banks frowning over their heads.
-- So the boat was left to drift down the stream as it would, till it glided gently in among the waving rushes.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fell on his side, then gently collapsed upon his face and moved no more.
-- The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail and whistling away gently to himself, and that was the only sound excepting the swish of the sea against the bows and around the sides of the ship.
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