(adv.) with low volume; 'speak softly but carry a big stick'; 'she spoke quietly to the child'; 'the radio was playing softly'.
(adv.) in a manner that is pleasing to the senses; 'she smiled softly'.
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双语例句
No, she said softly, laughing at his sudden quickness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
He has been talking off and on about such like all day, ma'am, said Jenny softly. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Speak softly, Anselmo said. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
She held her to her bosom; she cradled her in her arms; she rocked her softly, as if lulling a young child to sleep. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
She spoke so modestly and softly and her trembling hand expressed such agitation as it moved to and fro upon the silent notes! 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
While Merrival was talking, Clara softly opened a door behind Idris, and beckoned me to come with a gesture and look of grief. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Take this light; go softly up the steps straight afore you, and along the little hall, to the street door; unfasten it, and let us in. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
This brief direction to Charley Bates, and his recent antagonist, was softly and immediately obeyed. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
Then she went down softly, through the dark, to the door. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
I grasped it firmly, rose softly from the bed, and leaned over my sleeping wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
In breathless expectancy I waited, when finally the great door moved softly toward me and slid quietly to one side. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
I touched it so softly that I was not heard, and looked in unseen. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
The door closed, and the carriage rolled softly through the snow; and back returned the Countess, pensive and anxious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
It's all figured out, _guapa_, he said softly against Maria's shoulder. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
I took a candle and went softly in to fetch it from its shelf. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Roberto, Maria said very softly and kissed him. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
But he lay still, and she softly closed the door and returned to her room. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
And she paddled softly, lingeringly, longing for him to say something meaningful to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I went to the door very softly, not to disturb Catherine, and opened it. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
As the door closed on her she said to herself softly, It's Baxter's doings and Baxter's dooty--that's what it is. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
When I entered the bedchamber, and softly approached the bedside by the dim flicker of the night-lamp, my wife was asleep. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
I alighted softly upon the ground, however, without appreciable shock or jar. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
That feline personage, with her lips tightly shut and her eyes looking out at him sideways, softly closes the door before replying. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
He kissed her softly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
As their retreating footsteps died away in the distance, I called out softly the Martian word of greeting, kaor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
So, the sunrise came, and the shadows of the leaves of the plane-tree moved upon his face, as softly as her lips had moved in praying for him. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
She rose softly saying: 'Perhaps you will sleep. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.