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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The electric light went out suddenly, and two enormous waterspouts broke over the bridge of the frigate, rushing like a torrent from stem to stern, overthrowing men, and breaking the lashings of the spars.
-- The length of this cylinder, from stem to stern, is exactly 232 feet, and its maximum breadth is twenty-six feet.
-- I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.
-- Such was the region the Nautilus was now visiting, a perfect meadow, a close carpet of seaweed, fucus, and tropical berries, so thick and so compact that the stem of a vessel could hardly tear its way through it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Picking a daisy he dropped it on the pond, so that the stem was a keel, the flower floated like a little water lily, staring with its open face up to the sky.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically.
-- A week after, in the recess between the Chimneys and the cliff, a dockyard was prepared, and a keel five-and-thirty feet long, furnished with a stern- post at the stern and a stem at the bows, lay along the sand.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I put the helm hard up, and the Hispaniola swung round rapidly and ran stem on for the low, wooded shore.
-- "We've a little stranger here he!he!A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John stem to stem we was, all night."
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