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softly

/sawft-lee, soft‐/US // sɔft li, sɒft‐ //

轻轻地,轻轻的,柔和地,轻轻地说

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a low pitch or volume; quietly: We spoke softly so as not to wake the baby.Jazz was playing softly in the background.
    • : Music. with a smoothly subdued and gentle sound: In this passage, the horns exit softly as the violins become more vibrant.
    • : in a way that is neither harsh nor glaring to the eye: The room was softly lit with a dimmed chandelier and six flickering candles.
    • : in a gentle, warm-hearted, or compassionate manner; tenderly; sympathetically: She softly embraced her son and reassured him of her love.

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Examples

  • By 2011, Danlan had become so popular that Ma could no longer keep his identity a secret, which the softly spoken 43-year-old now calls “a blessing in disguise.”

  • This is because data protection agencies have mostly taken a softly-softly approach to bringing sites into compliance.

  • Movie theaters have been closed or, when softly reopened in pre-vaccine times, reserved exclusively for crazy people comfortable sitting in an enclosed space with strangers eating popcorn.

  • Although the man was paralyzed from the neck down, he imagined writing letters softly with his hand.

  • It then turned itself sideways in a “belly flop” maneuver and headed back to Earth before righting itself, reigniting its engines and touching down softly.

  • His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.

  • He played it through once, singing the lyrics softly to his own guitar accompaniment.

  • “J.W. heard Hayden say softly, ‘You smell good,’” the papers report.

  • He seemed to be here, there, everywhere, sitting under a tree softly strumming his guitar.

  • Kimberlin, who looks and softly speaks like a miniaturized clone of David Strathairn, could not lay a glove on his tormenter.

  • The two were standing together before the fire; Bernard watched Mrs. Vivian close the door softly behind her.

  • The next instant the door closed softly behind them, and she went out of his life as a wife forever.

  • Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.

  • She glanced up at him softly, under long lashes,—a thrilling glance; but he missed its radiance, for his own eyes were far away.

  • They were standing over the cots in the nursery late at night, and I think that Mamma was crying softly.