0 gently -- 轻轻地;稍稍地
lightly cooked vegetables 烧得很嫩的蔬菜
1 If you say something lightly, you are not serious when you say it. -- 轻松地,随便地;不严肃地
2 to be punished or to punish someone less severely than might have been expected -- 得到从轻判罚;对(某人)从轻判罚
I think he got off quite lightly considering it's his third driving offence. 这已经是他第3次违法驾驶了,我觉得对他罚得太轻了。
Dab the paint on lightly.
Just before pouring, however, it was decided lightly to reinforce the church's wall-cores - at $4000 extra cost.
The seriously polluted advanced regions are coastal, and the lightly polluted under-developed regions are all landlocked.
For reprimands, a lightly admonishing tone was used, appropriate to the meaning of the reprimand.