steer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 驾驶, 为…操舵; 引导vi. 驾驶，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't pretend to know much about these things, and I'd be a better judge of a horse or a steer than of a picture.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft did not intend to let the raft go away in the current without guidance, neither did he mean to embark on it himself to steer it.
-- A seat in the stern, a second seat in the middle to preserve the equilibrium, a third seat in the bows, rowlocks for the two oars, a scull to steer with, completed the little craft, which was twelve feet long, and did not weigh more than two hundred pounds.
-- We will build a decked boat, and I will undertake to steer her.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We can steer a course, but who's to set one?
-- "Everybody knowed you was a kind of a chapling, John; but there's others as could hand and steer as well as you," said Israel.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To steer this boat to starboard or port, to turn, in a word, following a horizontal plan, I use an ordinary rudder fixed on the back of the stern-post, and with one wheel and some tackle to steer by.
-- I wondered if Captain Nemo, foolishly imprudent, would steer his vessel into that pass where Dumont d'Urville's two corvettes touched; when, swerving again, and cutting straight through to the west, he steered for the Island of Gilboa.
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：
-- "You'll tell me if I don't steer straight," she said, in nervous apprehension.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had remarked on one side of the road, at intervals of six or seven yards, a line of upright stones, continued through the whole length of the barren: these were erected and daubed with lime on purpose to serve as guides in the dark, and also when a fall, like the present, confounded the deep swamps on either hand with the firmer path: but, excepting a dirty dot pointing up here and there, all traces of their existence had vanished: and my companion found it necessary to warn me frequently to steer to the right or left, when I imagined I was following, correctly, the windings of the road.
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