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 gently ['dʒɛntlɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
ad. 温和地, 温柔地, 轻轻地, 逐渐地

  1. She always speaks gently to the child.
    她对孩子说话总是很温和。
  2. He rotates the handle gently.
    他轻轻地转动手柄。
  3. The waves gently lap against the shore.
    海浪轻轻地拍打着海岸。


gently
[ adv ]
  1. in a gradual manner

  2. <adv.all>
    a gently sloping terrain
  3. in a gentle manner

  4. <adv.all>
    he talked gently to the injured animal
  5. with little weight or force

  6. <adv.all>
    she kissed him lightly on the forehead


Gently \Gen"tly\, adv.
In a gentle manner.

My mistress gently chides the fault I made. --Dryden.

  1. No sign of Des Wilson going gently into that good night.
  2. Dice the butter, put it into a small saucepan with half the tea and heat gently until the butter is melted.
  3. The stock market was mixed in late trading today, after seesawing gently through much of the trading session.
  4. As the fatal moment approached twice a day, barkeeps gently chivied customers to finish and leave.
  5. There are even three intricately "plaited," gently distended nests by the weaver birds of India and Africa.
  6. These provisions, however, have also been criticised as suppressing the dynamic development of European culture,' the report says. The Japanese government is determined to be more controversial, if gently so on the issue of culture.
  7. The first lady, gently resisting further questioning about the case, told reporters, "You don't want to see a grown woman cry, do you?" She spoke on Air Force One on the way home Wednesday night from the economic summit in Houston.
  8. Like most of Bernhard's narrators, he's an enraged misogynist, a cruelly self-absorbed, manipulative, self-vaunting and self-hating monomaniac (to put it gently).
  9. Hey said a parachute attached to the shell failed to open and the shell penetrated the Earth instead of floating gently to the ground.
  10. Mr Bentsen is thus likely gently to press the Bundesbank to consider an early easing of policy. The president's attention to international economic issues will be welcomed abroad.
  11. Mrs. Bradosky said the engine was running and that she had shifted from park into drive and gently placed her foot on the accelerator when the car surged forward and would not stop despite pressure on the brake pedal.
  12. If any discoloration remains, scrape it gently with a pen knife.
  13. At 7:06 a.m., six minutes past schedule, the executioner turned on 2,000 volts of electricity and Bundy gently arched back in the chair and clenched his fists.
  14. His claim to fame is such gently mischievous novels as "Changing Places," "Small World" and "Nice Work," which has just been issued in paperback.
  15. As adhesive begins to soften, gently loosen the paper with a scraper, then peel off.
  16. The 13-foot whale hugs the ship's hull, sometimes gently bumps against it, and often sprays passengers with water.
  17. Stockbroker UBS believes economic growth will peak at 3.7 per cent in 1995 before falling back gently to 1.6 per cent in 1998.
  18. Despite their precarious financial situation, they immediately set about renovating the kitchen and landscaping the wild gardens which sloped gently down to wide meadows and a small pond.
  19. "Jury service is a give and take, as gently as possible.
  20. "Galileo is on its way to another world," Atlantis commander Don Williams said shortly after the 6,700-pound probe was gently ejected from the shuttle's cargo bay by springs.
  21. There is a magical passage in the slow movement, when three instruments wind down gently over a cello pedal before the restatement of the theme; but the theme itself might have been penned by one of Elgar's pale tors.
  22. In an earlier news conference, Mr. Dukakis had more gently deflected Mr. Jackson's pleas for budget commitments.
  23. The doctor gently smiles.
  24. London share prices finished just below the day's best level Friday, as the market was prodded gently higher amid stagnant, pre-holiday dealings.
  25. Politicians say journalists have treated Mrs. Mofford more gently than they did Mecham.
  26. The most risque jokes in the collection gently suggest that another nation might be just a tiny bit silly. Funnier than some of the cracks is the commentary that goes with them.
  27. For instance, the satellite showed that solar wind does not flow steadily and gently as once thought, but boils off the sun's surface with such fury that it influences events in the outer reaches of the solar system.
  28. A Scottish actor, chosen because of his role in an ITV detective series, is visited 'unexpectedly' in his home, Cilla Black style, and invited to ride a gently undulating mechanical bucking bronco.
  29. It was like being in a grave." Now he was picking at the pieces of brick, gently fingering what was left of the home he had loved.
  30. Equitable executives are thought to believe that Axa would proceed more gently with a restructuring than AIG.
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