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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had any fault it was his being so intensely Scotch from top to toe, a Caledonian of the Caledonians, an obstinate stickler for all the ancient customs of his country.
-- Just at that moment John Mangles appeared at the top of the stairs.
-- "Monsieur Deville was on board the government corvette, La Decidee, when she touched at the Cape Verde Islands, and he explored the most interesting of the group, and went to the top of the volcano in Isle Fogo.
-- We have only to cross the top of the mountain chain, and once over, nothing can be easier of descent than the slopes we shall find there.
-- "Combustibles on the top of the Cordilleras!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly the trapdoor at the top flew up, something was screamed to the driver, and the cab flew madly off down Regent Street.
-- As we came round the top of the stairs we had run up against Sir Henry Baskerville himself.
-- A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair.
-- Then on the top of these more or less vague im-pressions there had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, delivered with such intense earnestness that I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason lay behind it.
-- In my last report I ended upon my top note with Barry-more at the window, and now I have quite a budget already which will, unless I am much mistaken, considerably sur-prise you.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Draw the scaffold so that only the top step of the ladder comes in clearly.
-- cried Gania, almost at the top of his voice; 'to READ, and you read it?'
-- She immediately overwhelmed the general once more with questions, and within five min-utes that gentleman was as happy as a king, and holding forth at the top of his voice, amid the laughter of almost all who heard him.
-- When I was in Switzerland I used to look with as-tonishment at the many ruins of feudal castles perched on the top of steep and rocky heights, half a mile at least above sea-level, so that to reach them one had to climb many miles of stony tracks.
-- He was a good com-panion, and was always merry and jolly, sometimes even witty, though he was not very intellectual, in spite of the fact that he was always top of the class; I myself was never top in anything!All his companions were very fond of him, excepting myself.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- His head ran up to a point, but there was little hair on the top of it.
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set pieces of raw meat on the top of them.
-- As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven.
-- They do not mingle with the silver eddies of the Peneus, but flow on the top of them like oil; for the Titaresius is a branch of dread Orcus and of the river Styx.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took a mouthful, glanced suspiciously at the window, took another mouthful, then rose and, taking the serviette in his hand, walked across the room and pulled the blind down to the top of the white muslin that obscured the lower panes.
-- He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath.
-- Well, I turned at the top step and swung round, plucked one out of a pile and smashed it on his silly head as he came at me.
-- One man as I was about to pass him at the top of Bedford Street, turned upon me abruptly and came into me, sending me into the road and almost under the wheel of a passing hansom.
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