Now, take a deep, relaxing breath in through your nose. And let it out.

现在用鼻子深吸，呼气。

Close your eyes or soften your gaze.

闭上睛或凝视。

The Dumbledore in Harry's head smiled, surveying Harry over the tips of his fingers, pressed together as if in prayer.

在脑海里邓不利多正在微笑，用手抚摸着哈利的头，又像是在祈祷一样双手互扣着。

Her face softened briefly and she tilted her head, casting me a confiding look.

她的表情短暂下来， 微微侧头，投给我一个信任的。

So she says, " How softly sinks his trembling sun" .

所以她说，“他颤抖的太阳多么沉没了”。

Then he went into an appeased sleep, belching now and then contentedly into the soft warm darkness.

。 然后他安然入睡， 不时在温暖的黑暗中满足打嗝。

If “hard” is the opposite of “soft”, why are “hardly” and “softly” not an opposing pair?

如果说 hard(硬)是 soft(软)的反义词，为什么 hardly(几乎不) softly(，轻)却不是一对反义词呢？

Street lights and warm lighting in the houses softly reflect from the water, creating that famous charming Norwegian atmosphere.

街灯房屋内温暖的灯光从水中反射出来，营造出著名的迷人挪威氛围。

A red sun gradually sinks in the west, softly casting golden rays that tint the mountains, rivers, grass, and trees.

一轮红日渐渐从西边下沉，投下金色的光芒，染上了山川、草树木。

Her face softened briefly and – without that customary, rigid expression – I could see suddenly how desperately tired she looked.

她的脸色短暂下来——没有了那种惯常的、僵硬的表情——我突然可以看出她看起来是多么疲惫不堪。

Look back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun 6 In human nature's west.

用慈祥的目光回首过去， 他无疑已经尽力了；他颤抖的太阳多么落下 6 在人性的西方。

Everything was quiet except the sound of a church bell, which tolled softly in the distance, calling the morally upright to Sunday morning services.

除了远处教堂钟声敲响，召唤着道德高尚者参加周日上午的礼拜外，一切都静悄悄的。

There is a time and a place for both, but this second example allows you to soften your language and be a bit more diplomatic.

两者都有其适用的时机点，但是第二个例子可以让你更加使用语言， 并且更加圆滑一些。

How truly glorious the landscape circled around this noble summit! -giant mountains, valleys innumerable, glaciers and meadows, rivers and lakes, with the wide blue sky bent tenderly over them all.

环绕这座崇高山峰的风景是多么壮丽啊！高耸的山脉、无数的山谷、冰川草、河流湖泊，宽阔的蓝天笼罩着它们。

There's a rest area, gently lit in pinkish tones, with several easy chairs and a sofa, in a lime-green bamboo-shoot print, with a wall clock above it in a gold filigree frame.

有一个休息区，以粉红色调照亮，有几把安乐椅一张沙发，采用石灰绿色竹笋印花，上面有一个金色花丝框架的挂钟。

Sfumato is an attempt Leonardo Da Vinci wrote in his notebooks to subtly represent the soft smoking infer the gradation from the dark shadow to light by delicately and gently merging darkness and light.

Sfumato是达芬奇在其笔记中所述的一种尝试，通过细腻而轻融合明暗，微妙表现从暗影到光亮的渐变，以描绘出烟雾般的过渡效果。

When I came forth, it astonished me to see the softly radiant sky, and to tread on the moist earth; my dream expected a wind-swept canopy of cold grey, and all beneath it the gleam of new-fallen snow.

当我出来的时候，我惊讶看到的光芒四射的天空，踩在潮湿的土上；我的梦想期待一个被风吹过的冷灰色树冠，而在它下面是新落的雪的微光。

As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away—somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by.

清晨，当他躺在床上回忆他伟大冒险的事件时，他注意到它们似乎出奇遥远——有点好像它们发生在另一个世界，或者发生在很久以前的时间里。

In the morning everything is joyous and bright, the delicious purple of the dawn changes softly to daffodil yellow and white; while the sunbeams pouring through the passes between the peaks give a margin of gold to each of them.

早晨，一切都是欢乐而明亮的，黎明的美味紫色变成了黄水仙花般的黄白色；而从山峰之间的通道倾泻而下的阳光给他们每个人带来了金色的边缘。