loom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 隐隐呈现, 赫然耸现; n. 织机, 织造(术)，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：
-- We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.'
-- It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress, or to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated bru-tally by some cruel task-master; then will one say who sees you weeping, 'She was wife to Hector, the bravest warrior among the Trojans during the war before Ilius.'
-- She was at her loom in an inner part of the house, weaving a double purple web, and embroidering it with many flowers.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied the old minister, looking at the loom through his spectacles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church is calm enough, I am sure; but it might be a steam-power loom in full action, for any sedative effect it has on me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been at his loom full half an hour, thinking about this old woman, when, having occasion to move round the loom for its adjustment, he glanced through a window which was in his corner, and saw her still looking up at the pile of building, lost in admiration.
-- He stood on a raised stage, under his own loom; and, looking up at the shape the loom took, and hearing the burial service distinctly read, he knew that he was there to suffer death.
-- At the end of the second day, he saw land; at the end of the third, his loom stood empty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Flintwinch had introduced into the web that his mind was busily weaving, in that old workshop where the loom of his youth had stood, the last thread wanting to the pattern.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates.
-- Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is again carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise upon the loom or handle of every man's oar, so that it jogs against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size of a common quill, prevents it from slipping out.
-- The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is he deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it.
-- Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging a gigantic idler!Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton.
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