top是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 顶， 顶端； 首位； 顶点a. 最高的； 顶上的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Green body and yel-low tail, with a thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of his head; there he is.
-- Master Scrooge's trunk being by this 38 Sons and Loverstime tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and getting into it, drove gaily down the garden-sweep: the quick wheels dash-ing the hoar-frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray.
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
-- It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- 'So, then!One more pull and you're at the top and be damned to you, for I have had trouble enough to get you to it! Joe!'
-- It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.
-- At last, the top of the staircase was gained, and they stopped for the third time.
-- Decidedly not; once received a kick on the top of a stair-case, and fell downstairs of his own accord.
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：
-- Dolls that looked for all the world like men the Tree had never beheld such be-fore were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed.
-- So then the Fir Tree told the whole fairy tale, for he could remember every single word of it; and the little Mice jumped for joy up to the very top of the Tree.
-- The golden star of tinsel was still on the top of the Tree, and glittered in the sunshine.
-- The next day it was a sharp frost and then the spring came; the sun shone, the green leaves appeared, the swal-lows built their nests, the windows were opened, and the little children again sat in their pretty garden, high up on the leads at the top of the house.
-- It was full of cracks from top to bottom; and out of the openings magpies and rooks were flying; and the great bull-dogs, each of which looked as if he could swallow a man, jumped up, but they did not bark, for that was forbidden.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was standing at the top of the stairs.
-- said Levin, and he promptly ran up to the top to do this new trick.
-- When Anna was passing the top of the staircase, a servant was running up to announce the visitor, while the visitor himself was standing under a lamp.
-- Although her dress, her coiffure, and all the preparations for the ball had cost Kitty great trouble and consideration, at this moment she walked into the ballroom in her elaborate tulle dress over a pink slip as easily and simply as though all the rosettes and lace, all the minute details of her attire, had not cost her or her family a moment's attention, as though she had been born in that tulle and lace, with her hair done up high on her head, and a rose and two leaves on the top of it.
-- The fair one darts upstairs to the top story.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having scrutinised the house from top to bottom, he rubbed his hands, a broad smile overspread his features, and he said joyfully, "This is just what I wanted!Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I!What a domestic and regular gentleman!A real machine; well, I don't mind serving a machine."
-- The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
-- "But can you sing standing on your head, with a top spinning on your left foot, and a sabre balanced on your right?"
-- But, instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other's shoulders, the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses.
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