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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, he held me by the arms, in an upright position on the top of the stone, and went on in these fearful terms:--"You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
-- It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water.
-- "The top of mine to the foot of yours,--the foot of yours to the top of mine,--Ring once, ring twice,--the best tune on the Musical Glasses!Your health.
-- "Though mind you, Pip," said Joe, with a judicial touch or two of the poker on the top bar, "rendering unto all their doo, and maintaining equal justice betwixt man and man, my father were that good in his hart, don't you see?"
-- Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew 24 Grimms' Fairy Talesup to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his cus-tom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.
-- The donkey laid himself down upon a heap of straw in the yard, the dog stretched himself upon a mat be-hind the door, the cat rolled herself up on the hearth before the warm ashes, and the cock perched upon a beam on the top of the house; and, as they were all rather tired with their journey, they soon fell asleep.
-- At this the robber ran back as fast as 26 Grimms' Fairy Taleshe could to his comrades, and told the captain how a hor-rid witch had got into the house, and had spat at him and scratched his face with her long bony fingers; how a man with a knife in his hand had hidden himself behind the door, and stabbed him in the leg; how a black monster stood in the yard and struck him with a club, and how the devil had sat upon the top of the house and cried out, 'Throw the ras-cal up here!'
-- She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.
-- 'Top off!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the left pocket were two black pillars irregularly shaped: we could not, without difficulty, reach the top of them, as we stood at the bottom of his pocket.
-- There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.
-- I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my hand-kerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect; and extended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side.
-- I was struck with the utmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hide myself in the corn, whence I saw him at the top of the stile look-ing back into the next field on the right hand, and heard him call in a voice many degrees louder than a speaking- trumpet: but the noise was so high in the air, that at first I certainly thought it was thunder.
-- An-other time, walking to the top of a fresh mole-hill, I fell to my neck in the hole, through which that animal had cast up the earth, and coined some lie, not worth remembering, to excuse myself for spoiling my clothes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
-- You are not to suppose because she keeps my house for me, that she hasn't been very high up the tree ah, up at the top of the tree!Now, if you have got anything to say that can't be said before a born lady, this lady will leave the room.
-- By dint of roaring at the top of his voice under a flaring gaslight, clenching his fists, knitting his brows, setting his teeth, and pounding with his arms, he had taken so much out of himself by this time, that he was brought to a stop, and called for a glass of water.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes wasunknown to him; and his vanity would have suffered tremendously if he had found it out, for he liked to think thatwhen he bawled orders at the top of his voice everyone trembled and obeyed.
-- Gerald shoved in all his chips and laid on top of them his wallet.
-- Pork, tiptoeing, reached the ring in the chainand drew the lamp slowly down until the table top was brightly bathed in light and the ceiling receded into shadows.
-- I will!I will at the top of my voice!Get away from me!Don't youdare touch me!"
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