steamer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蒸笼, 汽锅, 汽船, 轮船，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.
-- impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of july, they learned that a steamer of the line of san francisco, from california to shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the north pacific ocean.
-- nothing on the horizon, till about four o'clock a steamer running west on our counter.
-- then night fell in the midst of a heavy silence, sometimes broken by the cries of the pelican and other night-birds, and the noise of the waves breaking upon the shore, chafing against the rocks, or the panting of some far-off steamer beating the waters of the gulf with its noisy paddles.
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：
-- and the crowd that throngs the wharf as the steamer draws alongside is gay and debonair; it is a noisy, cheerful, gesticulating crowd.
-- sometimes a mail steamer would come in, and captain nichols, having scraped acquaintance with the timekeeper, would succeed in getting the pair of them a job as stevedores.
-- before he entered upon his new duties he wished to take a holiday, and, having no private means, he went as surgeon on a tramp steamer to the levant.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "yes, yes, with the first steamer from nijhni; i know," said wolf, with his condescending smile, who always knew everything in advance, whatever the subject mentioned to him.
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：
-- in the distance, the steamer twanged and thrummed and washed with her faintly-splashing paddles, trailing her strings of coloured lights, and occasionally lighting up the whole scene luridly with an effusion of fireworks, roman candles and sheafs of stars and other simple effects, illuminating the surface of the water, and showing the boats creeping round, low down.
-- the steamer hooted again, for some unknown reason.
-- having heard the child calling from the steamer in the night, she felt some mysterious connection with her.
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