lever是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 杆, 杠杆; 施加影响的手段; vt. 用杠杆移动，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine- driver covered with frost.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most laboratory men, he believed that the reason why workmen found less joy in sewing vests or in pulling a lever than he did in a long research was because they were an inferior race, born lazy and wicked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 340CHAPTER XXVGood and Bad AngelsI WAS going out at my door on the morning after that deplorableday of headache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusionin my mind relative to the date of my dinner-party as if a body ofTitans had taken an enormous lever and pushed the day beforeyesterday some months back, when I saw a ticket-porter comingupstairs, with a letter in his hand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We all saw the lever turn.
-- I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
-- "I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud.
-- I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
-- Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't like the term "reparation," sir, except as a lever in the hands of counsel.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ex-manager laid hand to the lever and pushed it gently, as he thought.
-- Hurstwood turned the lever and ran the car out through the door into the street in front of the barn.
-- He kept his eyes straight on before and opened the lever wide.
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