plumb是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 铅锤, 测锤; vt. 探测, 查明，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that conceivably it may not have been insane in Martin to have "run away from school once, but to go and sneak back this second time was absolutely plumb crazy."
-- Terry meditated, "'Member there was one of these Nobel-prize winners, Slim, one of these plumb fanatics that instead of blowing in the prize spent the whole thing on chimps and other apes, and he got together with another of those whiskery old birds, and they ducked up alleys and kept the anti- viv folks from prosecuting them, and settled the problem of the transfer of syphilis to lower animals?
-- And meanwhile you can go plumb to hell, my young friend!"
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb en I'd ben a- treat'n her so!'
-- We got her half way; and then we was plumb played out, and most drownded with sweat.
-- He's plumb crazy, s'I; it's what I says in the fust place, it's what I says in the middle, 'n' it's what I says last 'n' all the time the nigger's crazy crazy 's Nebokoodneezer, s'I.'
-- So there I had to stick plumb until daylight this morning; and I never see a nigger that was a better nuss or faithfuller, and yet he was risking his freedom to do it, and was all tired out, too, and I see plain enough he'd been worked main hard lately.
-- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torch-light procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
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