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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The DUNCAN was just about to get under way, and already the vibration of the screw began to agitate the limpid waters of Talcahuano, Glenarvan, Paganel, McNabbs, Robert Grant, Tom Austin, Wilson, and Mulrady, stood armed with carbines and Colt's revolvers.
-- Five days after losing sight of Cape Corrientes, on the 16th of November, they fell in with fine westerly breezes, and the DUNCAN might almost have dispensed with her screw altogether, for she flew over the water like a bird, spreading all her sails to catch the breeze, as if she were running a race with the Royal Thames Club yachts.
-- CHAPTER IV A WAGER AND HOW DECIDEDON the 7th of December, at three A. M., the DUNCAN lay puffing out her smoke in the little harbor ready to start, and a few minutes afterward the anchor was lifted, and the screw set in motion.
-- However, John Mangles did not lose a second in extricating his ship from the peril in which she was placed by the condition of her screw propeller.
-- Their report was that one of the branches of the screw was bent, and had got jammed against the stern post, which of course prevented all possibility of rotation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The course was taken towards the north-west, and the next day the screw of the frigate was at last beating the waters of the Pacific.
-- The fires were increased, the screw revolved forty-three times a minute, and the steam poured out of the valves.
-- "I say that, at the time I threw myself into the sea, I heard the men at the wheel say, `The screw and the rudder are broken.'
-- They shut the one belonging to the Nautilus; I shut the other by means of screw pressure.
-- By turning a screw I established a communication between the wire and the spiral glass, and the sea, lit by our four lanterns, was illuminated for a circle of thirty-six yards.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's horrible,' said Kotick, backing water as a wave went over him, and steadying himself with a screw stroke of his flippers that brought him all standing within three inches of a jagged edge of rock.
-- 'I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,' said the mule, 'and the other's one of your friends.
-- Last came the screw guns, and Billy the mule carried himself as though he commanded all the troops, and his harness was oiled and polished till it winked.
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