stem是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 茎; vi. (～from) 起源于，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：
-- Before her stem lay a broad, open, sparkling ocean, which Jacques Paganel greeted with enthusiastic gestures, feeling kindred emotions with those which stirred the bosom of Ferdinand de Magellan himself, when the sails of his ship, the TRINIDAD, first bent before the breeze from the great Pacific.
-- The waves were already beginning to dash over the side of the ship, and the sea might any moment sweep right over her from stem to stern.
-- At others, she would keep pace with them, and make such enormous leaps that there was imminent danger of her being pitched over on her side, and then again, every now and then the storm-driven sea would out-distance the yacht, and the angry billows would sweep over the deck from stem to stern with tremendous violence.
-- It was still thirty miles distant from the yacht, whose stem was rapidly cutting her way over the water at the rate of sixteen knots an hour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man raked the fire together with an old stair-rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mudembankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high 39windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted frag-ments with eager relish.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of offi-cial duties"; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence the click of one bamboo stem against the other, the rustle of something alive in the undergrowth, the scratch and squawk of a half-waked bird (birds are awake in the night much more often than we imagine), and the fall of water ever so far away.
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：
-- Twenty times they thought the whirl-ing eddies were sweeping them to destruction, when the masterhand of their pilot would bring the bows of the ca-noe to stem the rapid.
-- After a short and impressive pause, Chingachgook light-ed a pipe whose bowl was curiously carved in one of the soft stones of the country, and whose stem was a tube of wood, and commenced smoking.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, captain," replied Herbert; "but its stem contains a flour with which nature has provided us all ready ground."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat on a bench and the crook was made, a stem being given him into the bargain.
-- Oak seized the cut ends of the sheaves, as if he were going to engage in the operation of "reed-drawing," and digging in his feet, and occasionally sticking in the stem of his sheep-crook, he clambered up the beetling face.
-- Oak, his features smudged, grimy, and undiscoverable from the smoke and heat, his smock-frock burnt into holes and dripping with water, the ash stem of his sheep-crook charred six inches shorter, advanced with the humility stern adversity had thrust upon him up to the slight female form in the saddle.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had borne eight children, as red of hair and as full of life as she, and had raised them most successfully, sothe County said, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the stem discipline she gave the colts she bred.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
-- As some wooded mountain-spur that stretches across a plain will turn water and check the flow even of a great riv-er, nor is there any stream strong enough to break through it even so did the two Ajaxes face the Trojans and stem the tide of their fighting though they kept pouring on towards them and foremost among them all was Aeneas son of An-chises with valiant Hector.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
-- While, in the morbid condition of his thoughts, these thoughts drifted over the main one that was always in Clennam's mind, Mr Flintwinch, regarding the opposite house over the gateway with his neck twisted and one eye shut up, stood smoking with a vicious expression upon him; more as if he were trying to bite off the stem of his pipe, than as if he were enjoying it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship's hull, called the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
-- Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was clinging to the oblique stem of a palm-tree.
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