soothe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 安慰， 使镇定，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But, Anna," said Vronsky, in a soft and persuasive voice, trying to soothe her, "we absolutely must, anyway, tell him, and then be guided by the line he takes."
-- The excited mare, trying to shake off her rider first on one side and then the other, pulled at the reins, and Vronsky tried in vain with voice and hand to soothe her.
-- Kitty, scowling more than ever, kept silent, and Varenka went on speaking alone, trying to soften or soothe her, and seeing a storm coming--she did not know whether of tears or of words.
-- "I understand, I understand," he interrupted her, taking the letter, but not reading it, and trying to soothe her.
-- In spite of all Levin's efforts to soothe his brother afterwards, Nikolay would listen to nothing he said, declaring that it was better to part, and Konstantin saw that it simply was that life was unbearable to him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My boy, if you only knew how foolish you sound when you try to be cynical!When you're as old as I am, you'll understand that the glory of being a doctor is that you can teach folks high ideals while you soothe their tortured bodies."
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：
-- Let my life go, if only my dear ones may be happy!More than that, we become casuists, we learn to be Jesuitical and for a time maybe we can soothe ourselves, we can persuade ourselves that it is one's duty for a good object.
-- You must soothe and comfort them and you do nothing but frighten them 芒聙娄' 'What has that to do with you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so shocked by the contents of this heart-rending letter, that Iran off directly towards the little hotel with the intention of takingit on my way to Doctor Strong's, and trying to soothe Mr.Micawber with a word of comfort.
-- I saw Steerforth soothe and pleaseyou by his praise of her!You were the first to mention her name.
-- Again Rosa Dartle triedto soothe her; again ineffectually.
-- As it was, an intervaloccurred before I fully knew my own distress; an interval, in whichI even supposed that its sharpest pangs were past; and when mymind could soothe itself by resting on all that was most innocentand beautiful, in the tender story that was closed for ever.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had come, in his anxiety to see how she bore Frank Churchill's engagement, with no selfish view, no view at all, but of endeavouring, if she allowed him an opening, to soothe or to counsel her. The rest had been the work of the moment, the immediate effect of what he heard, on his feelings.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Honesty and pure conviction suggested the remark, unaccompanied by any perception that it might have been adopted by blunt flattery to soothe and win her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
-- Elizabeth alone had the power to draw me from these fits; her gentle voice would soothe me when transported by passion and inspire me with human feelings when sunk in torpor.
-- He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.
-- I wish to soothe him, yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of ev-ery hope of consolation, to live?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Melanie mentioned it so often!But Melanie and Pitty were tireless in planningways to soothe the sorrow under which they thought she labored.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was liberally paid for my old attendance here," I said, to soothe her, "in being apprenticed, and I have asked these questions only for my own information.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she comforted him, and said, 'Dear father, the word you have given must be kept; I will go to the lion, and soothe him: perhaps he will let me come safe home again.'
-- He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be ap-peased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Bolton tried to soothe him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this tumult in her mind, it is no subject for surprise that Miss Fanny came home one night in a state of agitation from a concert and ball at Mrs Merdle's house, and on her sister affectionately trying to soothe her, pushed that sister away from the toilette-table at which she sat angrily trying to cry, and declared with a heaving bosom that she detested everybody, and she wished she was dead.
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