seam是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 线缝, 接缝; 煤层,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
-- "Look ye here, then," cried Ahab, passionately advancing, and leaning with both hands on Perth's shoulders; "look ye here here can ye smoothe out a seam like this, blacksmith," sweeping one hand across his ribbed brow; "if thou could'st, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay my head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, 'You can sew any-254 Grimms' Fairy Talesthing with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the underground manager showing him the seam with a pow-erful torch.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meg rose as she spoke, and was just going to rehearse the dignified exit, when a step in the hall made her fly into her seat and begin to sew as fast as if her life depended on fin-ishing that particular seam in a given time.
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