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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you HAVE a hope left, it is that your suffering air may soften her heart towards you.'
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：
-- He was without arms, and his paint tended rather to soften than increase the natural sternness of his austere countenance.
-- Magua waited a little, to permit his words to soften the feelings of the Delawares, before he added: 'Have there not been strange moccasins in the woods?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I hope not,' returned Mr Swiveller, 'but the average number of letters it take to soften her is six, and this time we have got as far as eight without any effect at all.
-- 'Our only consolation, Kit,' pursued the lawyer, looking at him in a sort of pensive abstraction, 'is, that although we cannot turn away the wind, we can soften it; we can temper it, if I may say so, to the shorn lambs.'
-- 'I would have you think of nothing else to-night of nothing but those things which will soften your heart, dear friend, and open it to old affections and old times.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then, as if desiring to soften his harsh demeanor, he added: "I cannot give you the permission before I know what you want to see her for."
-- "Of course, mon cher, I am always ready to do anything for you," Maslenikoff said, touching his knees with both hands, as if desiring to soften his own greatness.
-- Her eyes were filled with tears, but this not only did not soften him, but made him even more inflamed against her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About ten o'clock in the morning, the symptoms of the storm became more thorough and decisive; the wind appeared to soften down as if to take breath for a renewed attack; the vast funereal pall above us looked like a huge bag--like the cave of AEolus, in which the storm was collecting its forces for the attack.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That it could soften or relent, appeared next to impossible.
-- If I had any influence with you, I would simply use it to soften your judgment of me in causing you this disappointment: to represent to you that I have lived the half of a long term of life, and have never before set my own will against yours.
-- 'I assume,' said Arthur, persevering, in his endeavour to soften her scornful demeanour, 'that being in communication may I say, confidential communication? with this person ''You may say, of course, whatever you like,' she remarked; 'but I do not subscribe to your assumptions, Mr Clennam, or to any one's.'
-- I have seen him, with his mother's face, looking up at me in awe from his little books, and trying to soften me with his mother's ways that hardened me.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She bore it very well, and quietly submitted to the family decree that she should not shorten her visit, for since it was too late to say goodbye to Beth, she had better stay, and let absence soften her sorrow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say but that, dear Rose; say but that; and soften the bitterness of this hard disappointment!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had abundantly earned the privilege of intimate discussion of her sister's disappointment, by the friendly zeal with which he had endeavoured to soften it, and they always conversed with confidence.
-- The matter itself I could not deny, and vain was every endeavour to soften it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn't so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, 'There was the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if you'd a done it they'd a learnt you there that people that acts as I'd been acting about that nigger goes to everlasting fire.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geppetto, though trying to look very stern, felt his eyes fill with tears and his heart soften when he saw Pinocchio so unhappy.
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