steam是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水汽， 蒸汽， 水蒸气v. 蒸发； 蒸； 用蒸汽开动，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine- driver covered with frost.
-- In the morning the sun rose brilliant and quickly wore away the thin layer of ice that covered the water, and all the warm air was quivering with the steam that rose up from the quickened earth.
-- A poor thrashing machine, or your Russian presser, they will break, but my steam press they don't break.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways.
-- A quarter of an hour later found Fix, with a small bag in his hand, proceeding on board the Mongolia; and, ere many moments longer, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea.
-- The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows, viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvellous temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture.
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
-- The captain as often as possible put up his sails, and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roaring Bunsen flames beneath the hot-air ovens, the steam from the Arnold sterilizers rolling to the rafters, clouding the windows, were to Martin lovely with activity, and to him the most radiant things in the world were rows of test-tubes filled with watery serum and plugged with cotton singed to a coffee brown, a fine platinum loop leaning in a shiny test-glass, a fantastic hedge of tall glass tubes mysteriously connecting jars, or a bottle rich with gentian violet stain.
-- Last night and tonight we steam her throat, and we put her here in our own bedroom!"
-- He's running a sanitarium out on Long Island--slick idea, too--practically he's a bootlegger; gets a lot of high- rollers out there and let's 'em have all the hooch they want, on prescriptions, absolutely legal and water-tight!The parties they throw at that joint, dames and everything!Believe me, Uncle Clif is sore stricken with tootelus bootelus and is going to the Carr Sanitarium for what ails him!But now look: Suppose we got him or somebody to rig up a new kind of cure--call it phageotherapy--oh, it takes Uncle Clif to invent the names that claw in the bounteous dollars!Patients sit in a steam cabinet and eat tablets made of phage, with just a little strychnin to jazz up their hearts!Bran- new!Million in it!What- cha-think?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw a man so thoroughly enjoy himselfamid the fragrance of lemon-peel and sugar, the odour of burningrum, and the steam of boiling water, as Mr. Micawber did thatafternoon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So many hundred Hands in this Mill; so many hundred horse Steam Power.
-- In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle at once ordered me to turn my steps that way, and accordingly we went on board the steam ferry boat which does duty on the canal, and very soon reached the noted dockyard quay.
-- Accustomed as I had been to the steam ferry boats of the Elbe, I found the long oars of the boatmen but sorry means of locomotion.
-- Here and there could be made out the steam from hot water springs.
-- I could see many spouts of steam rising in the air.
-- If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any immediate eruption."
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：
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- The steam of so much boredom, and discontent and anger out of all the people, just kills the vitality in the air.
-- As she rose on to the high country, she could see on her left, on a height above the rolling land, the shadowy, pow-erful bulk of Warsop Castle, dark grey, with below it the reddish plastering of miners' dwellings, newish, and be-low those the plumes of dark smoke and white steam from the great colliery which put so many thousand pounds per annum into the pockets of the Duke and the other share-holders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Pancks, who was always in a hurry, and who referred at intervals to a little dirty notebook which he kept beside him (perhaps containing the names of the defaulters he meant to look up by way of dessert), took in his victuals much as if he were coaling; with a good deal of noise, a good deal of dropping about, and a puff and a snort occasionally, as if he were nearly ready to steam away.
-- They walked on with him until they came to a dirty shop window in a dirty street, which was made almost opaque by the steam of hot meats, vegetables, and puddings.
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