tender是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 脆弱的, 娇嫩的; 温柔的; vt. 提供, 投标，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, it was given in a tender rain of tears, and then it was, 'Take me to her.'
-- This touched Young Jerry on a tender place; who adjured his mother to perform her first duty, and, whatever else she did or neglected, above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of that maternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his other parent.
-- 'If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!'
-- He besought her though he added that he knew it was needless to console her father, by impressing him through every tender means she could think of, with the truth that he had done nothing for which he could justly reproach himself, but had uniformly forgotten himself for their joint sakes.
-- I see him, fore-most of just 536 A tale of two citiesjudges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigure-ment and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice.
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：
-- Light and air con-52 Andersen's Fairy Talestend with chivalric emulation for the love of the fair flower that bestowed her chief favors on the latter; full of longing she turned towards the light, and as soon as it vanished, rolled her tender leaves together and slept in the embraces of the air.
-- Oh, how tender and wearied her little feet were!All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them like wa-ter; one leaf fell after the other: the sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth on edge.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I've told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I believe the chances are in your favor."
-- As he approached her, his beautiful eyes shone with a specially tender light, and with a faint, happy, and modestly triumphant smile (so it seemed to Levin), bowing carefully and respectfully over her, he held out his small broad hand to her.
-- Anna said, with tender irony.
-- "Yes, as you see, your tender spouse, as devoted as the first year after marriage, burned with impatience to see you," he said in his deliberate, high-pitched voice, and in that tone which he almost always took with her, a tone of jeering at anyone who should say in earnest what he said.
-- During the prince's outburst she was silent; she felt ashamed for her mother, and tender towards her father for so quickly being kind again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her delicately formed ears, her vermilion hands, her little feet, curved and tender as the lotus-bud, glitter with the brilliancy of the loveliest pearls of Ceylon, the most dazzling diamonds of Golconda.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noted that Madeline was not only a rare and understanding spirit but also an extraordinarily desirable woman--fresh color, tender eyes, adorable slope from shoulder to side.
-- He tried to look tender as he protested, "Sure--sure--gosh, honest, Mad, look out.
-- She had a genius for frank passion; she teased him, tantalized him, but she was tender and unafraid.
-- She was eighteen, the youngest of his brood, squat, and in no way comely save for her tender mouth.
-- He fled to Gottlieb as to the wise and tender father, and begged to be saved from Success and Holabirds and A. DeWitt Tubbses and their hordes of address-making scientists, degree-hunting authors, pulpit orators, popular surgeons, valeted journalists, sentimental merchant princes, literary politicians, titled sportsmen, statesmenlike generals, interviewed senators, sententious bishops.
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：
-- Well, and that's enough, I think, by way of a decorous oraison fun脙篓bre for the most tender wife of a most tender husband.
-- The decrepit father was wheeled in to see Svidriga脙炉lov by the tender and sensible mother, who as usual began the conversation with various irrelevant questions.
-- He went away, leaving them all in a state of extraordinary excitement, but the tender mam-ma, speaking quietly in a half whisper, settled some of the most important of their doubts, concluding that Svidriga-脙炉lov was a great man, a man of great affairs and connections and of great wealth there was no knowing what he had in his mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had a very pleasant day, though we were all in a tender stateabout our approaching separation.
-- A tenderyoung cork, however, would have had no more chance against apair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair ofdentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I hadagainst Uriah and Mrs. Heep.
-- I say nothing tender to Miss Shepherd, but we understandeach other.
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