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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fell in a struggling heap one on the top of the other.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, 'And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long.'
-- 'And then, and then, they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat, and they they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said I was their blood brother except that I had no tail, and should be their leader some day.'
-- Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be al-most down to earth again.
-- Then you can imagine the times that he had with his companions, ducking under the rollers; or coming in on top of a comber and landing with a swash and a splutter as the big wave went whirling far up the beach; or standing up on his tail and scratching his head as the old people did; or playing 'I'm the King of the Castle' on slippery, weedy rocks that just stuck out of the wash. Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark's fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
-- Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at an-other as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They spoke together earnestly in the Delaware lan-guage, though in an undertone; and by the gestures of the white man, which were frequently directed towards the top of the sapling, it was evident he pointed out the situation of their hidden enemy.
-- Swift as thought, Hawkeye seized the advantage, and discharged his fatal weapon into the top of the oak.
-- The one in question was high and precipitous; its top flattened, as usual; but with one of its sides more than ordinarily irregular.
-- I thought I heard it again!or was it the rustling of the leaves in the top of the beech?'
-- The two canoes came round the last low point, like two coursers at the top of their speed, the fugitives taking the lead.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where!
-- A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called, and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horses tail.
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：
-- Luck favoured us, and in the first we tried the concierge told us that we should find him on the top floor.
-- Stroeve ran up the stairs ahead of me, and when I reached the top floor I found him talking to a workman in his shirt-sleeves who had opened a door at which Stroeve had knocked.
-- He screamed at the top of his voice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," replied Neb, "and besides, Top is there."
-- The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.
-- But Top had disappeared at the same time as his master, and had probably perished with him.
-- "What astonishes me," rejoined the reporter, "while admitting that our companion has perished, is that Top has also met his death, and that neither the body of the dog nor of his master has been cast on the shore!"
-- It appeared inexplicable, above all, in the midst of this black night and in such a tempest!But what was still more inexplicable was, that Top was neither tired, nor exhausted, nor even soiled with mud or sand!Herbert had drawn him towards him, and was patting his head, the dog rubbing his neck against the lad's hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief; his dirty wristbands were pulled on as far as possible and ostentatiously folded back over his cuffs; he displayed no gloves, and carried a yellow cane having at the top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp.
-- Then came a turnpike; then fields again with trees and hay-stacks; then, a hill, and on the top of that, the traveller might stop, and looking back at old Saint Paul's looming through the smoke, its cross peeping above the cloud (if the day were clear), and glittering in the sun; and casting his eyes upon the Babel out of which it grew until he traced it down to the furthest outposts of the invading army of bricks and mortar whose station lay for the present nearly at his feet might feel at last that he was clear of London.
-- At the top of the first form the post of honour in the school was the vacant place of the little sick scholar, and at the head of the row of pegs on which those who came in hats or caps were wont to hang them up, one was left empty.
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