thread是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 线， 细丝； 线索， 思路； 螺纹v. 穿线， 穿过，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a waterfall near us, such a lovely thin streak of water, like a thread but white and moving.
-- His words seemed tinged with a kind of sarcastic mock-ery, yet he was extremely agitated, casting suspicious glances around him, growing confused, and constantly losing the thread of his ideas.
-- And 'that woman' again!Why did he always feel as though 'that woman' were fated to appear at each critical moment of his life, and tear the thread of his destiny like a bit of rotten string?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When King Agamemnon saw the blood flowing from the wound he was afraid, and so was brave Menelaus him-self till he saw that the barbs of the arrow and the thread that bound the arrow-head to the shaft were still outside the wound.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather.
-- Y inexperience as a writer betrays me, and I wander Mfrom the thread of my story.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ay, the French have gathered around the fort in good earnest and we have a delicate needle to thread in passing them.'
-- The thread is spun.
-- The language of the Mohicans was accompanied by ges-tures so direct and natural that Heyward had but little difficulty in following the thread of their argument.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to transporting you this evening to the other side of the Mercy, and that without wetting one thread of your clothes, I will take care of that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You haven't got a needle and thread I suppose?'
-- Seeing that they were at a loss, the child said timidly:'I have a needle, Sir, in my basket, and thread too.
-- CHAPTER 42It behoves us to leave Kit for a while, thoughtful and expectant, and to follow the fortunes of little Nell; resuming the thread of the narrative at the point where it was left, some chapters back.
-- I shall wear,' added Richard, taking off his hat again and looking hard at it, as if he were only deterred by pecuniary considerations from spurning it with his foot, 'I shall wear this emblem of woman's perfidy, in remembrance of her with whom I shall never again thread the windings of the mazy; whom I shall never more pledge in the rosy; who, during the short remainder of my existence, will murder the balmy.
-- Mr Swiveller replied that he had never tasted that ardent liquor; and once more urged his friend to resume the thread of her narrative.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She became silent, as if she had lost the thread of the story, or thought of something else.
-- She drew out one of the knitting needles, stuck it into the ball of thread and stocking, and went out into the corridor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass, and a tinder box were all that they contained, and I began to despair.
-- As I continued to thread the tall woods, I could hear from far before me not only the continuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the sea breeze had set in higher than usual.
-- Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An electric thread puts it in communication with the screw, and the needle indicates the real speed.
-- An electric thread connects us.
-- This one, the diameter of which is nineteen feet, and the thread twenty-three feet, performs about 120 revolutions in a second."
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