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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, there was a haunting look of despair about her that went to his heart and made him more gentle withher than he had ever been with any person in all the world.
-- She knew how to smile so that her dimples leaped, how to walk pigeon-toed so that her wide hoop skirts swayedentrancingly, how to look up into a man's face and then drop her eyes and bat the lids rapidly so that she seemed a-tremble with gentle emotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler.
-- By degrees she led me into more temperate talk, and she told me how Joe loved me, and how Joe never complained of anything,--she didn't say, of me; she had no need; I knew what she meant,--but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart.
-- But Wemmick was equally untiring and gentle in his vigilance, and the Aged read on, quite unconscious of his many rescues.
-- There was something so natural and winning in Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out; and something so confiding, loving, and innocent in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm; and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection on Mill Pond Bank, by Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, with Old Barley growling in the beam,--that I would not have undone the engagement between her and Herbert for all the money in the pocket-book I had never opened.
-- And seeing that Mr. Jaggers stood quite still and silent, and apparently quite obdurate, under this appeal, I turned to Wemmick, and said, "Wemmick, I know you to be a man with a gentle heart.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day, just as the princess had sat down to din-ner, she heard a strange noise tap, tap plash, plash as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said: 'Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!
-- But the princess was very gentle and meek, so she said nothing to her maid's ill behaviour, but got upon her horse again.
-- And young and old, noble and squire, gentle and simple, came at once on the summons; and among the rest came the friendly dwarf, with the sug-arloaf hat, and a new scarlet cloak.
-- They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow-white was more qui-et and gentle than Rose-red.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he di-rected me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars.
-- I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignifi-cant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
-- There 258 Gulliver's Travelsis indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether ap-prove of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a dead-ly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
-- My master and his friends continued on the shore till I was almost out of sight; and I often heard the sorrel nag (who always loved me) crying out, 'Hnuy illa nyha, majah Yahoo;' 'Take care of thyself, gentle Yahoo.'
-- hus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history Tof my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned, being then in the brightness of a lamp; and raising her hood a little, showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes, and further set off by the perfect order of her shining black hair.
-- said Rachael, with another gentle touch upon his arm, as if to recall him out of the thoughtfulness, in which he was biting the long ends of his loose neckerchief as he walked along.
-- Mrs. Sparsit uttered a gentle ejaculation, as having received a moral shock.
-- She steeped a piece of linen in a basin, into which she poured some liquid from a bottle, and laid it with a gentle hand upon the sore.
-- Be poor amoong 'em, be sick amoong 'em, grieve amoong 'em for onny o' th' monny causes that carries grief to the poor man's door, an' they'll be tender wi' yo, gentle wi' yo, comfortable wi' yo, Chrisen wi' yo.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I caught his trembling hands in mine and gave them a gentle pressure.
-- On the eighth, however, at twelve o'clock in the day, the fissure suddenly assumed a much more gentle slope still trending in a southeast direction.
-- The Professor, however, was one of those men who must be severely tried in order to induce any display of affection or gentle emotion.
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