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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A second group of artists disposed themselves on these long appendages, then a third above these, then a fourth, until a human monument reaching to the very cornices of the theatre soon arose on top of the noses.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At supper--the thirty piratical Digams sitting at a long and spotty table, devouring clam chowder and beans and codfish balls and banana layer-cake--the Freshmen earnestly repeated after a senior: On old Olympus' topmost top A fat-eared German viewed a hop.
-- On top of this came urgent letters from Mr. Tozer, begging Martin to settle in Wheatsylvania.
-- He landed from a boat at what had been the second story of a tenement and delivered a baby on the top floor; he bound up heads and arms for a line of men; but what gave him glory was the perfectly foolhardy feat of swimming the flood to save five children marooned and terrified on a bobbing church pew.
-- Next day he called Martin to his office, shook his hand some more, told Pearl Robbins that they were honored to know him, then led him to a mountain top and showed him all the kingdoms of the world: "Martin, I have some plans for you.
-- Martin grunted to Leora, as they stood by their bags, their cases of phage, on the heaving, black-shining deck near the top of the accommodation- ladder.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet when a drunken man who, for some unknown reason, was being taken somewhere in a huge waggon dragged by a heavy dray horse, suddenly shouted at him as he drove past: 'Hey there, German hatter' bawling at the top of his voice and pointing at him the young man stopped suddenly and clutched tremulously at his hat.
-- 'It must be the top drawer,' he reflected.
-- It was nearly eleven o'clock and although in summer in Peters-38 Crime and Punishmentburg there is no real night, yet it was quite dark at the top of the stairs.
-- A grimy little door at the very top of the stairs stood ajar.
-- She had on a dress of some light silky ma-terial, but put on strangely awry, not properly hooked up, and torn open at the top of the skirt, close to the waist: a great piece was rent and hanging loose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I picture myself coming downstairs in the morning,and looking through a long ghastly gash of a staircase window atthe school-bell hanging on the top of an outhouse with a weather-cock above it; and dreading the time when it shall ring J. Steerforthand the rest to work.
-- Hewas bald on the top of his head, and had some thin wet-lookinghair that was just turning grey, brushed across each temple, so thatthe two sides interlaced on his forehead.
-- He introduced himself byinforming me that I should find his name on the right-hand cornerof the gate, over the top bolt; upon that I said, 'Traddles?'
-- Peggotty was dressed as usual, in her neat and quiet mourning; butMr. Barkis bloomed in a new blue coat, of which the tailor hadgiven him such good measure, that the cuffs would have renderedgloves unnecessary in the coldest weather, while the collar was sohigh that it pushed his hair up on end on the top of his head.
-- Of all the moveables in it, I must havebeen most impressed by a certain old bureau of some dark wood inthe parlour (the tile-floored kitchen was the general sitting-room),with a retreating top which opened, let down, and became a desk,within which was a large quarto edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mis'ess's niece is upon the top of the things, and she says that's enough that I've offered ye, you great miser, and she won't pay any more."
-- Gabriel called at the top of his voice the shepherd's call:"Ovey, ovey, ovey!"
-- 'Tis that bold shepherd up there that have done the most good he sitting on the top o' rick, whizzing his great long arms about like a windmill."
-- 'Tis a gentleman!I see the top of his hat."
-- The door was flung back till it kicked the wall and trembled from top to bottom with the blow.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a solitary chamber, or rath-er cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my work-shop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.
-- It was nearly noon when I arrived at the top of the as-cent.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald O'Hara was coming home across country and at top speed.
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