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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia.
-- Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company.
-- "Is the steam full on?"
-- Two days passed, the steam was at half pressure; a thousand schemes were tried to attract the attention and stimulate the apathy of the animal in case it should be met in those parts.
-- The steam was shut off, and the Abraham Lincoln, beating to port, described a semicircle.
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：
-- The steam launch was fussing in, all its music jingling, people calling excitedly from on board.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A steam machine?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a deep red ruddy blush upon the room, and when the landlord stirred the fire, sending the flames skipping and leaping up when he took off the lid of the iron pot and there rushed out a savoury smell, while the bubbling sound grew deeper and more rich, and an unctuous steam came floating out, hanging in a delicious mist above their heads when he did this, Mr Codlin's heart was touched.
-- Mr Codlin sat smiling in the chimney-corner, eyeing the landlord as with a roguish look he held the cover in his hand, and, feigning that his doing so was needful to the welfare of the cookery, suffered the delightful steam to tickle the nostrils of his guest.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such wretchedness Nekhludoff saw in a number of shoemakers that he saw working near the window of a basement; in the lean, pale, disheveled washerwomen ironing with bare hands before open windows from which soap-laden steam poured out; in two painters, aproned and bare-footed, who were covered with paint from temple to heel.
-- asked Nekhludoff, feeling the heat issuing from the window as from a steam bath.
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