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

现用鼻子柔和地深吸，呼气。

Close your eyes or soften your gaze.

闭上眼睛或柔和地凝视。

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

脑海里邓不利多正微笑，用手柔和地抚摸哈利的头，又像是祈祷一样双手互扣。

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

她的表情短暂地柔和下来， 微微侧头，投给我一个信任的眼神。

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，我惊讶地看到柔和的光芒四射的天空，踩潮湿的土地上；我的梦想期待一个被风吹过的冷灰色树，下面是新落的雪的微光。

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丽啊！高耸的山脉、无数的山谷、冰川和草地、河流和湖泊，宽阔的蓝天柔和地笼们。

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和地点，但是第二个例子可以让你更加柔和地使用语言， 并且更加圆滑一些。

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

除了远处教堂钟声柔和地敲响，召唤道德高尚者参加周日上午的礼拜外，一切都静悄悄的。

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；他颤抖的太阳多么柔和地落下 6 人性的西方。

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

她的脸色短暂地柔和下来——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。

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

街灯和房屋内温暖的灯光从水中柔和地反射出来，营造出著名的迷人挪威氛围。

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，当他躺床上回忆他伟大冒险的事件时，他注意到们似乎出奇地柔和和遥远——有点好像们发生另一个世界，或者发生很久以前的时间里。

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是达芬奇其笔记中所述的一种尝试，通过细腻轻柔地融合明暗，微妙地表现从暗影到光亮的渐变，以柔和地描绘出烟雾般的过渡效果。

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，以粉红色调柔和地照亮，有几把安乐椅和一张沙发，采用石灰绿色竹笋印花，上面有一个金色花丝框架的挂钟。

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

所以她说，“他颤抖的太阳多么柔和地沉没了”。

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，柔和地投下金色的光芒，染上了山川、草地和树木。

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

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)和 softly(柔和地，轻柔地)却不是一对反义词呢？