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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Put this and that together, my tender pupil,' returned the waryMowcher, touching her nose, 'work it by the rule of Secrets in alltrades, and the product will give you the desired result.
-- If I went to sleep for a few moments, the imageof Agnes with her tender eyes, and of her father looking fondly onher, as I had so often seen him look, arose before me with 357appealing faces, and filled me with vague terrors.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he with a tender sigh, as he received it.
-- ' and 'Dear Miss Woodhouse,' was all that Harriet, with many tender embraces could ar-ticulate at first; but when they did arrive at something more like conversation, it was sufficiently clear to her friend that she saw, felt, anticipated, and remembered just as she ought.
-- Emma only nodded, and smiled. After a little thinking, and a very tender sigh, he added, 'Ah!it is no difficulty to see who you take after!Yourdear mother was so clever at all those things!If I had but her memory!But I can remember nothing; not even that par-ticular riddle which you have heard me mention; I can only recollect the first stanza; and there are several.
-- She ran away to indulge the inclination, leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to Harriet's share.
-- said Mr. Woodhouse, shaking his head and fixing 128 Emmahis eyes on her with tender concern. The ejaculation in Emma's ear expressed, 'Ah!there is no end of the sad conse-quences of your going to South End.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the centre was a small oval enclosure; this was left blank, that the sender might insert tender words more appropriate to the special occasion than any generalities by a printer could possibly be.
-- Gabriel had almost constantly preceded her in this tour every evening, watching her affairs as carefully as any specially appointed officer of surveillance could have done; but this tender devotion was to a great extent unknown to his mistress, and as much as was known was somewhat thanklessly received.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent plea-sure while regarding me are my first recollections.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horses, feeling slackreins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass, and the patient hounds lay down again in the soft reddust and looked up longingly at the chimney swallows circling in the gathering dusk.
-- Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its tooshort, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlishgiggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.
-- She was pretty and sheknew it; she would have Ashley for her own before the day was over; the sun was warm and tender and the glory ofthe Georgia spring was spread before her eyes.
-- They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like afather speaking to a hurt child.
-- How fragile and tender women are, he thought, the mere mention of war andharshness makes them faint.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I did mind you, Pip," he returned with tender simplicity.
-- O dear good faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, as solemnly this day as if it had been the rustle of an angel's wing!
-- "Now, Handel," Herbert replied, in his gay, hopeful way, "it seems to me that in the despondency of the tender passion, we are looking into our gift-horse's mouth with a magnifying-glass.
-- And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.
-- It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than Gout, Rum, and Purser's stores.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hate cow-beef; it is not tender enough for me.
-- The wolf thought to himself: 'What a tender young crea-ture!what a nice plump mouthful she will be better to eat than the old woman.
-- So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood ran.
-- Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!'
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