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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another silencefollowed this, and another gentle beating on my hand.
-- There was an inflexibility in her face, in her voice, in hergait and carriage, amply sufficient to account for the effect she hadmade upon a gentle creature like my mother; but her features wererather handsome than otherwise, though unbending and austere.
-- You have such a gentle nature, and you arealways right.'
-- After delivering this speech allin a breath, and with extraordinary animation and pleasure, Mr.Peggotty put one of his large hands rapturously on each side of hisniece's face, and kissing it a dozen times, laid it with a gentle prideand love upon his broad chest, and patted it as if his hand hadbeen a lady's.
-- My hand upon that, too!Daisy, stir the fire,and make it a brisk one!and Mr. Peggotty, unless you can induceyour gentle niece to come back (for whom I vacate this seat in thecorner), I shall go.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sorrow came a gentle sorrow but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness. Miss Taylor married.
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- But never did she go without Mr. Woodhouse's giving a gentle sigh, and saying, 'Ah, poor Miss Taylor!She would be very glad to stay.'
-- He seems to me to be grown particularly gentle of late.
-- 'He appears rough to you,' said Emma, 'because you are so very gentle yourself; but if you could compare him with other papas, you would not think him rough.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I ask all good and gentle readers to be so kind as to forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any inhabitants of a Victorian Wessex outside the pages of this and the companion volumes in which they were first discovered.
-- His first feeling now was one of pity for the untimely fate of these gentle ewes and their unborn lambs.
-- "Never was such a hopeless man for a woman!He's been courted by sixes and sevens all the girls, gentle and simple, for miles round, have tried him.
-- "Well, somebody has and look here, neighbours," Gabriel, though one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth, rose to the occasion, with martial promptness and vigour.
-- The circumstance had been the gentle dip of Troy's mouth downwards upon her own.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer exhausted the vocabulary of abuse, and failed to find words that did justice to the banker's iniquitous conduct; but while they heaped execrations on the millionaire, Victorine's words were as gentle as the moan of the wounded dove, and affection found expression even in the cry drawn from her by pain.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- Yet his man-ners are so conciliating and gentle that the sailors are all interested in him, although they have had very little com-munication with him.
-- She is very clever and gentle and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mien and her expressions continually remind me of my dear aunt.
-- A sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From her Frenchmother, whose parents had fled Haiti in the Revolution of 1791, had come her slanting dark eyes, shadowed by inkylashes, and her black hair; and from her father, a soldier of Napoleon, she had her long straight nose and her square-cut jaw that was softened by the gentle curving of her cheeks.
-- She would have been a strikingly beautiful woman had there been any glow in her eyes, any responsive warmth inher smile or any spontaneity in her voice that fell with gentle melody on the ears of her family and her servants.
-- For when Philippe, with hissnapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and leftfor the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell.
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