It's a religious image. It's also a gendered religious image; it's also an aesthetic image.

这是一个宗教场景，一个温柔的宗教场景;,也是一个具有审美意味的宗教场景。

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Because it allows you to very softly express a dislike about a suggested action.

因为这个句型能让你以一种委婉温柔的方式表达对某一提议的否定。

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I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark, this unbearably sweet night wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy, true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.

引-我只是我，萨尔·佩拉提斯，无精打采地徘徊在这个，温柔的难以忍受的夜晚，多希望自己能够变成,一个快乐，真诚，热情奔放的美国黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But who is out there, who'd be sweet and kind and loving and wonderful?

但全世界又有谁，是温柔体贴而又慈爱美丽的呢？

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It's a very soft way to say that you don't want to do something.

这是一种表达你不愿意做某事的比较温柔的方法。

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Dear Sal, sweet Laura. I've come, I've gone, but wait, ah, yes," and he stared with rocky sorrow into his hands. "Can't talk no more.

亲爱的萨尔，温柔的劳拉，我已经来了，我马上要走“,可等等，嗯，是的“，他盯着自己的手，脸上露出不安的神情。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选