gentle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 文雅的, 有礼貌的，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：
-- The grasp, though gentle as a woman's 32 Sons and Lovershand, was not to be resisted.
-- Its gentle touch, though it had been light and instantaneous, appeared still present to the old man's sense of feeling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a gentle action, but not at all gently done; a very remarkable transformation had come over him 48 A tale of two citiesin a few seconds.
-- What is your name, my gentle angel?'
-- These little instruments of correction, these gentle aids to the power and honour of families, these slight favours that might so incommode you, are only to be obtained now by interest and importunity.
-- The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.
-- And he took another gentle little pinch of snuff, and lightly crossed his legs.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said 'the watchman, awaking from a gentle slumber.
-- But when the spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced her arrival, a new and busy life arose; with songs and hurrahs the ice was sawn asunder, the ships were fresh tarred and rigged, that they might sail away to distant lands.
-- The windows were often frozen over; but then they heated copper farthings on the stove, and laid the hot farthing on the windowpane, and then they had a capital peep-hole, quite nicely rounded; and out of each peeped a gentle friendly eye it was the little boy and the little girl who were looking out.
-- One evening, as he was sitting in his room, there was a gentle knocking at the door.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, but joking apart," resumed Stepan Arkadyevitch, "you must understand that the woman is a sweet, gentle loving creature, poor and lonely, and has sacrificed everything.
-- he said, with gentle reproachfulness.
-- That's not right," he said, and he stopped, putting his head on one side and looking at Levin with his kindly, gentle eyes.
-- At seven o'clock he was waked by the touch of her hand on his shoulder, and a gentle whisper.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was weeping; she kissed Martin's forehead with the dry, soft, gentle kiss of an old woman, and he was near to weeping with her.
-- Her gentle "I trust you" and her wambling "I'll try to" were warring in his ears as he plunged out of the suffocating cell and returned to Clif.
-- He needed some of her gentle but merry chiding.
-- Holabird was gentle and pretty, but he sighed that if this conclusion were published, he would have to take back all the things he had said about the magnificence which, presumably, he had inspired his subordinate to accomplish.
-- He was gentle and pretty, but firm; Martin was to suppress (Holabird did not say "suppress"-- he said "leave to me for further consideration") the real statistical results, and issue the report with an ambiguous summary.
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：
-- And much she gets to eat and drink when there is not a crust for the little ones for three days!I was lying at the time 芒聙娄 well, what of it!I was lying drunk and I heard my Sonia speaking (she is a gentle creature with a soft little voice 芒聙娄 fair hair and such a pale, thin little face).
-- She is such a soft, gentle creature, ready to put up with anything, always willing, willing to do anything.
-- Lizaveta!Sonia!Poor gentle things, with gentle eyes芒聙娄.
-- Sit down,' he said in a changed voice, gentle and friendly.
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