stream是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小河， 溪流； 流， 一股， 一串v. 流出， 涌，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I tried to get into the stream of people, but they were too thick for me, and in a moment my heels were being trodden upon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not think I have ever heard quite so much vile language come in a continuous stream from any man's lips before, though I have frequented eccentric company enough.
-- Then suddenly upon the bank of the stream appeared Something at first I could not dis-tinguish what it was.
-- The vague dread that had been in my mind since I had seen the inhuman face of the man at the stream grew distinc-ter as I stood there.
-- The noise receded up the stream and faded away.
-- I I found the hot stream broadened out to a shallow, weedy sand, in which an abundance of crabs and long-bodied, many-legged creatures started from my footfall.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hunt among the plowed fields tonight,' and he plunged down-ward through the bushes, to the stream at the bottom of the valley.
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：
-- 'Does not this stream at our feet run toward the summer, until its waters grow salt, and the current flows upward?'
-- It was met by Chingachgook, whose knife passed across its throat quick-er than thought, and then precipitating the motions of the struggling victim, he dashed into the river, down whose stream it glided away, gasping audibly for breath with its ebbing life.
-- As these, again, were surmounted by tall trees, which appeared to totter on the brows of the precipice, it gave the stream the appearance of running through a deep and narrow dell.
-- He had just fan-cied they were cruelly deserted by their scout, as a stream of flame issued from the rock beneath them, and a fierce yell, blended with a shriek of agony, announced that the mes-senger of death sent from the fatal weapon of Hawkeye, had found a victim.
-- With no other guide than the ripple of the stream where it met the head of the island, a party of their insatiable foes had ventured into the current, and swam down upon this point, knowing the ready access it would give, if successful, to their intended victims.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish.
-- "We went down to the stream to bathe while Ata was preparing the dinner, and after we had eaten it we sat on the verandah.
-- She was evidently a copious talker, and now poured forth a breathless stream of anecdote and comment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft had remarked, several hundred feet from the place at which they landed, a narrow cutting, out of which he thought a river or stream might issue.
-- Now, on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water, and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there.
-- Two hundred paces farther they arrived at the cutting, through which, as Pencroft had guessed, ran a stream of water, whether fresh or not was to be ascertained.
-- Sometimes a stream ran through the underwood, which they crossed without difficulty.
-- The stream here made a bend towards the south, but this detour was probab ly not prolonged for the river must have its source in the mountain, and be supplied by the melting of the snow which covered the sides of the central cone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- Meanwhile, they were drawing near the town where the races were to begin next day; for, from passing numerous groups of gipsies and trampers on the road, wending their way towards it, and straggling out from every by-way and cross-country lane, they gradually fell into a stream of people, some walking by the side of covered carts, others with horses, others with donkeys, others toiling on with heavy loads upon their backs, but all tending to the same point.
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