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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cape ran out two miles into the sea, and terminated in a gentle slope, and the boat glided easily into a sort of natural creek between coral banks in a state of formation, which in course of time would be a belt of coral reefs round the southern point of the Australian coast.
-- The Australian aborigines are gentle and inoffensive, never exhibiting the fierce hatred toward their conquerors which characterizes the New Zealanders, and possibly a few of the races of Northern Australia.
-- Several additional miles were got over, and a forest of tall trees came in sight at a bend of the road, behind a gentle eminence.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a sheet of thick writing-paper the prince had written in medieval characters the legend: 'The gentle Abbot Pafnute signed this.'
-- 'Marie was very gentle to her mother, and nursed her, and did everything for her; but the old woman accepted all her services without a word and never showed her the slightest kindness.
-- cried the prince, looking with gentle re-proach at Rogojin, and advancing towards him.
-- 'I shall,' said the prince, with gentle humility.
-- asked the prince in a gentle voice.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush to-gether in mobs and shout: 'There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Ban-dar-log.'
-- Sore, sleepy, and hun-gry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them.
-- Even gentle Matkah, his moth-er, said: 'You will never be able to stop the killing.
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：
-- A gen-eral movement among the domestics, and a low sound of gentle voices, announced the approach of those whose pres-ence alone was wanted to enable the cavalcade to move.
-- She pointed persuasively along the path with her riding whip, while their eyes met in a look which the young man lingered a moment to pro-long; then, yielding to her gentle influence, he clapped his spurs into his charger, and in a few bounds was again at the side of Cora.
-- 'I wish no contention of idle words with you, friend,' said Heyward, curbing his dissatisfied manner, and speaking in a more gentle voice; 'if you will tell me the distance to Fort Edward, and conduct me thither, your labor shall not go without its reward.'
-- Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had be-fore so strongly urged.
-- These gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon the rock, where I suppose a major of the Sixtieth would wish to keep us company.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became won-derfully gentle and ingratiating.
-- This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallant-ries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments ofa bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes.
-- The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain.
-- A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water, bordered by high trees, between which, peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Swede is adept at the gentle pastime of fishing in troubled waters.
-- But the season touched him with gentle feeling, and he hated the thought of Strickland spending Christmas Day by himself; he ascribed his own emotions to him, and could not bear that on an occasion given up to good-fellowship the lonely painter should be abandoned to his own melancholy.
-- Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them.
-- Capitaine Brunot turned to me with a gentle smile, and there was a wonderful look in his dark, kind eyes.
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