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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water.
-- Laura was at the top of the churchyard steps when our cab came up.
-- He told his brother to look down the gun, and it was loaded, and blew the top of his head off.
-- "It's like getting on top of the mountain and seeing the Pacific."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On that bleak hill top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.
-- The whole furniture consisted of a chair, a clothes press, and a large oak case, with squares cut out near the top resembling coach windows.
-- At the top of an extra page (quite a treasure, probably, when first lighted on) I was greatly amused to behold an excellent caricature of my friend Joseph, rudely, yet powerfully sketched.
-- To my confusion, I discovered the yell was not ideal: hasty footsteps approached my chamber door; somebody pushed it open, with a vigorous hand, and a light glimmered through the squares at the top of the bed.
-- 'Don't cant, Nelly,' he said: 'nonsense!We ran from the top of the Heights to the park, without stopping Catherine completely beaten in the race, because she was barefoot.
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