| 词汇 | softly |
| 释义 | softly adverb uk /ˈsɒft.li/ us /ˈsɑːft.li/ B1 gently: 轻轻地；稍稍地 She speaks softly but usually gets her own way.她说起话来轻声细语，但通常以自己的见解行事。 "Peter," she called softly. She chuckled softly. He closed the door softly. She started crying softly. Nicola laughed softly. Tender & gentle caressing caressingly fly gentle gentleness gently meekly meekness mild mild-mannered mildness non-critical soft softy tender tender-hearted tenderly tenderness TLC softly | American Dictionarysoftly adverb us/ˈsɔft·li/ gently; not loudly or forcefully: She spoke so softly it was hard to hear her. Examples of softlysoftly Vocalising softly, casually, confidentially, he ' has our ear'; he is privileged as our main informant. She spoke softly, and claimed us all as her children. They argue that effective regulation is based on speaking softly but carrying a big stick at the top of a hierarchy of sanctions. He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked in a womb of warmth, oily by scented melting soap, softly laved. Whether the ship would stay afloat or softly and suddenly vanish away was in the hands of my fellow physicists. The nurses noted, however, that she would moan softly when they changed her dressings. These measurements show how the long-range forces, short-range adhesion forces, and fusion barriers are different for rigidly supported and softly supported bilayers. A dreamy synthesizer supplies an affirmative upward cadence in a major key, and, following another two-note upwards progression on timpani, a cymbal crescendo softly sounds. The bridges lie on large, found, naturally occurring plates of granite which transmit the vibrations of the wires into the boulders and cause them to sing softly. The quiet lyrical text portrayed by the singer was accompanied by softly wafting sounds from mirambas and vibraphone, in a somewhat monotonous, duly repetitive sequence, to illustrate the theme. Play the phrase very softly. Forces between softly supported bilayers. George says his prayers much too softly. It is always on the pilgrim way in search of knowledge and of truth, even if its pilgrim way is softly carpeted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There appears to have been an air of secrecy and a softly, softly approach to its impending doom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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