soften是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 使软化vi. 变软弱，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more nat-40 A tale of two citiesural to it than sunshine.
-- 313XXII The Sea Still Rises aggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, Hin which to soften his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with the relish of frater-nal embraces and congratulations, when Madame Defarge sat at her counter, as usual, presiding over the customers.
-- As the last thing on earth that his heart was to warm and soften to, it warmed and softened to this pitiable girl.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky saw all the thanklessness of the business, and that there could be no question of a duel in it, that everything must be done to soften the government clerk, and hush the matter up.
-- Kitty, scowling more than ever, kept silent, and Varenka went on speaking alone, trying to soften or soothe her, and seeing a storm coming--she did not know whether of tears or of words.
-- He heard her, unconsciously bending his whole figure down to her as though hoping in this way to soften the hardness of her position for her.
-- But he talked to them, simply trying to reconcile and soften their differences.
-- It's awkward too, shooting with one dog," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, to soften his triumph.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not soften Bert's mood to have the clerk remark that if Martin and Leora were of age, there was nothing he could do, and he didn't "care a damn who's talking--I'm running this Office!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not confuse nor misrepresent the facts, nor soften them in his own interest, nor omit the smallest detail.
-- Incidentally the murder of Lizaveta served indeed to confirm the last hypothesis: a man commits two murders and forgets that the door is open!Fi-nally, the confession, at the very moment when the case was hopelessly muddled by the false evidence given by Nikolay through melancholy and fanaticism, and when, moreover, there were no proofs against the real criminal, no suspi-cions even (Porfiry Petrovitch fully kept his word) all this did much to soften the sentence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It'll soften your poor heart, Dan'l,'laying her head upon his shoulder, 'and you'll bear your sorrowbetter; for you know the promise, Dan'l, "As you have done it untoone of the least of these, you have done it unto Me"; and that cannever fail under this roof, that's been our shelter for so many,many year!'
-- Being very anxious to leave no stone unturned, I waited until Mr.Spenlow came in, and then described what had passed; giving himto understand that I was not hopeless of his being able to soften theadamantine Jorkins, if he would undertake the task.
-- But try, try- not for my sake, but foruncle's goodness, try to let your heart soften to me, only for a littlelittle time!Try, pray do, to relent towards a miserable girl, andwrite down on a bit of paper whether he is well, and what he saidabout me before you left off ever naming me among yourselves-and whether, of a night, when it is my old time of coming home,you ever see him look as if he thought of one he used to love sodear.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had tran-scribed it some pages ago already.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, we soften it down as much as we can, and call him Cainy.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her brother, her only means of communication, had not come to see her for four years, and had sent her no assistance; yet she prayed to God to unseal her father's eyes and to soften her brother's heart, and no accusations mingled with her prayers.
-- "It is quite right and proper, mademoiselle, to pray to Heaven to soften your father's heart," said Vautrin, as he drew a chair nearer to the orphan girl; "but that is not enough.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If there is bad blood between you and them," said I, to soften it off a little.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was one of the fluffy classes pulled up extremely short by my esteemed friend Mr. Bounderby who, as we know, is not possessed of that delicacy which would soften so tight a hand.
-- 'Bitzer, I have but one chance left to soften you.
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