dam是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 水坝, 筑坝, 抑制, 阻拦，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As two lions whom their dam has reared in the depths of some moun-tain forest to plunder homesteads and carry off sheep and cattle till they get killed by the hand of man, so were these two vanquished by Aeneas, and fell like high pine-trees to the ground.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course; it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He received Martin with four "Well's," which he gave after the manner of a college cheer; he showed him through the Department, led him into the Director's private office, gave him a cigar, and burst the dam of manly silence: "Doctor, I'm delighted to have a man with your scientific inclinations.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So soon as its narrow bed below the dam was dry, he stooped over it with keen and curious eyes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "B. E." is newly stamped upon the shorn skin, and away the simple dam leaps, panting, over the board into the shirtless flock outside.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Fellow-critters: I'se ordered here to say dat you must stop dat dam noise dare.
-- Stop dat dam smackin' ob de lip!Massa Stubb say dat you can fill your dam bellies up to de hatchings, but by Gor!you must stop dat dam racket!"
-- "Do you is all sharks, and by natur wery woracious, yet I zay to you, fellow-critters, dat dat woraciousness 'top dat dam slappin' ob de tail!How you tink to hear, spose you keep up such a dam slappin' and bitin' dare?"
-- "No use goin' on; de dam willains will keep a scougin' and slappin' each oder, Massa Stubb; dey don't hear one word; no use a-preachin' to such dam g'uttons as you call 'em, till dare bellies is full, and dare bellies is bottomless; and when dey do get 'em full, dey wont hear you den; for den dey sink in de sea, go fast to sleep on de coral, and can't hear not'ing at all, no more, for eber and eber."
-- "Queequeg no care what god made him shark," said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; "wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had stowed our new vessel as secure as we could, bringing her up into the creek, where, as I said in the beginning, I landed my rafts from the ship; and hauling her up to the shore at high-water mark, I made my man Friday dig a little dock, just big enough to hold her, and just deep enough to give her water enough to float in; and then, when the tide was out, we made a strong dam across the end of it, to keep the wa-ter out; and so she lay, dry as to the tide from the sea: and to keep the rain off we laid a great many boughs of trees, so thick that she was as well thatched as a house; and thus we waited for the months of November and December, in which I designed to make my adventure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the stage, Mrs. Van Dam was making her cruel insinuation against Laura.
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