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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The DUNCAN was a steam yacht of the finest description.
-- There she was, five miles out, her courses carefully reefed, and her steam half up.
-- The sails were instantly altered, and the steam got up, so as to get as near the coast as possible.
-- The sea was tranquil, and the wind kept in the right quarter, so that the yacht could spread all her canvas, and lend its aid, if needed to the indefatigable steam stored up in the boiler.
-- The steam was escaping violently, not by the funnel, but from the safety-valves of the boiler; the alarm whistle sounded unnaturally loud, and the yacht made a frightful pitch, overturning Wilson, who was at the wheel, by an unexpected blow from the tiller.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bands that bear your shields shall be wet with the sweat upon your shoulders, your hands shall weary upon your spears, your horses shall steam in front of your chariots, and if I see any man shirking the fight, or trying to keep out of it at the ships, there shall be no help for him, but he shall be a prey to dogs and vultures.'
-- One of these two springs is warm, and steam rises from it as smoke from a burning fire, but the other even in summer is as cold as hail or snow, or the ice that forms on water.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also promenading, and the steam organ attached to a small roundabout filled the air with a pungent flavour of oil and with equally pungent music.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to car-ry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the soldiers said, to the Abyssinian War medal.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Certainly," said Pencroft, "a beast of burden would be very useful to us until the captain has made a steam cart, or even an engine, for some day we shall have a railroad from Granite House to Port Balloon, with a branch line to Mount Franklin!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though not altogether enraptured at the sight of these visitors, Clennam lost no time in opening the counting-house door, and extricating them from the workshop; a rescue which was rendered the more necessary by Mr F.'s Aunt already stumbling over some impediment, and menacing steam power as an Institution with a stony reticule she carried.
-- Mr Pancks concluded by blowing off that steam of his.
-- Mr Pancks, being by that time quite ready for a start, got under steam in a moment, and, without any other signal or ceremony, was snorting down the step-ladder and working into Bleeding Heart Yard, before he seemed to be well out of the counting-house.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stage was dark and the glow of the fur-nace had a fine effect, especially as real steam issued from the kettle when the witch took off the cover.
-- Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.
-- In a few moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
-- At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as Perth, to temper it, plunged it all hissing into the cask of water near by, the scalding steam shot up into Ahab's bent face.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Eddie Fahrway's got a new steam launch, and he wants me to come up and see how it works."
-- It was one of the very new ones supplied with steam heat, which was a great advantage.
-- In the centre of the crowd the warmth and steam melted it, and water trickled off hat rims and down noses, which the owners could not reach to scratch.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There ain't no sense in it; go for the steam ferry.'
-- There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the en-gines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft.
-- I landed below where I judged was Phelps's place, and hid my bundle in the woods, and then filled up the canoe with water, and loaded rocks into her and sunk her where I could find her again when I wanted her, about a quarter of a mile below a little steam sawmill that was on the bank.
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