screw是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 螺丝, 螺旋; 螺旋浆; vt. /vi. 钉住, (用螺丝) 拧; 使紧，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There must be something short-sighted in the eternal ar-rangements, surely!Thus it was, however; and the last drop of blood having been extracted from the flints, and the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its pur-chase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite, Monseigneur began to run away from a phenome-non so low and unaccountable.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, I'll make you some coffee, so go and wash and get ready," said the baroness, sitting down again, and anxiously turning the screw in the new coffee pot.
-- But Konstantin Levin found it dull sitting and listening to him, especially when he knew that while he was away they would be carting dung onto the fields not ploughed ready for it, and heaping it all up anyhow; and would not screw the shares in the ploughs, but would let them come off and then say that the new ploughs were a silly invention, and there was nothing like the old Andreevna plough, and so on.
-- That's neither here nor there, though; but Lidia--I'm very fond of her, but she has a screw loose somewhere--has lost her heart to this Landau now, and nothing is settled now in her house or Alexey Alexandrovitch's without him, and so your sister's fate is now in the hands of Landau, alias Count Bezzubov."
-- Every attempt has been made, the screw has come unscrewed.
-- But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIMThe Rangoon one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.
-- One day he was leaning on the railing of the engine-room, and was observing the engine, when a sudden pitch of the steamer threw the screw out of the water.
-- Sometimes the screw rose out of the water, beating its protruding end, when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves; but the craft always kept straight ahead.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll tell you what I am,' whispered Mr. Creakle, letting it go at last,with a screw at parting that brought the water into my eyes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, Puss, you need not think to get around me with tearsthis time," he said hastily and with some panic in his voice as Scarlett's lids began to bat and her mouth to screw up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook worked his head like a screw to screw it out of me, and said, "Is forty-three pence seven and sixpence three fardens, for instance?"
-- He immediately began to talk to Drummle: not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but apparently led on by it to screw discourse out of him.
-- said Wemmick, "that's over!He's a wonderful man, without his living likeness; but I feel that I have to screw myself up when I dine with him,--and I dine more comfortably unscrewed."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll put a screw into 107that business,' said the little tailor.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ventured to unscrew one of my chairs, which were always fastened to the floor; and having made a hard shift to screw it down again, directly under the slipping-board that I had lately opened, I mounted on the chair, and putting my mouth as near as I could to the hole, I called for help in a loud voice, and in all the languages I understood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- demanded Mr Flintwinch, with another screw at him.
-- It was in vain for Mr Flintwinch to try another screw at him.
-- Thus, in the ensuing silence, Jeremiah stood scraping his chin and looking at Arthur as though he were trying to screw his thoughts out of him with an instrument.
-- Neither was it rendered more favourable to sanity by Flora's dashing into a rapid analysis of Mr Flintwinch's cravat, and describing him, without the lightest boundary line of separation between his identity and Mrs Clennam's, as a rusty screw in gaiters.
-- Mr Flintwinch, stiffening with indignation and amazement, moistened the fingers of one hand at his lips, softly described a circle with them in the palm of the other hand, and continued with a menacing grin to screw himself in the direction of his wife; gasping some remark as he advanced, of which, in his choking anger, only the words, 'Such a dose!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, if his superiors wanted to use the carpenter for a screw-driver, all they had to do was to open that part of him, and the screw was fast: or if for tweezers, take him up by the legs, and there they were.
-- Aye, lad, thou shalt sit here in my own screwed chair; another screw to it, thou must be."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Says I, if it could stay where it is, all right; because when we get down the river a hundred mile or two I could write back to Mary Jane, and she could dig him up again and get it; but that ain't the thing that's going to happen; the thing that's going to hap-pen is, the money 'll be found when they come to screw on the lid.
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