elevation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 高度； 标高； 隆肿，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：
-- At this elevation rain is unknown, and vapors only condense into snow or hail.
-- Paganel consulted his barometer, and found that the depression of the mercury corresponded to an elevation of 11,000 feet, only 910 meters lower than Mont Blanc.
-- They could not be pursued by wild beasts, for at such an elevation there were almost none to be met with, and of hunters still fewer.
-- They were all soon assembled on the lofty crags, and from this elevation could command a view of the whole plain below.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As The Vengeance descends from her elevation to do it, the tumbrils begin to discharge their loads.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky felt his elevation and his own abasement, his truth and his own falsehood.
-- But this temptation did not last long, and soon there was reestablished once more in Alexey Alexandrovitch's soul the peace and the elevation by virtue of which he could forget what he did not want to remember.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The track up to this time had reached its highest elevation at the Great Salt Lake.
-- The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I watched him into the heart of Mr. Micawber's letter, and 649returned the elevation of eye-brows with which he said '"Wieldingthe thunderbolt, or directing the devouring and avenging flame!"
-- Mrs. Micawber's conviction that herarguments were unanswerable, gave a moral elevation to her tonewhich I think I had never heard in it before.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime-pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
-- But by the time that he could reach an elevation sufficiently great to command a view of the sea beyond, dusk had set in, and nothing further was to be seen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Prissy had never been more than a mile away from Twelve Oaks or Tara before, and the trip onthe train plus her elevation to nurse was almost more than the brain in her little black skull could bear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, when we had walked home and had had tea, I took Biddy into our little garden by the side of the lane, and, after throwing out in a general way for the elevation of her spirits, that I should never forget her, said I had a favor to ask of her.
-- And I took him down to the churchyard, and set him on a certain tombstone there, and he showed me from that elevation which stone was sacred to the memory of Philip Pirrip, late of this Parish, and Also Georgiana, Wife of the Above.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the neighborhood of an extinct volcano, it has been remarked that the elevation of temperature was only one degree in every five-and-twenty feet.
-- The illuminating power in this subterranean region, from its trembling and Rickering character, its clear dry whiteness, the very slight elevation of its temperature, its great superiority to that of the moon, was evidently electric; something in the nature of the aurora borealis, only that its phenomena were constant, and able to light up the whole of the ocean cavern.
-- The lowest of the clouds must have been floating at an elevation of two thousand yards, a height greater than that of terrestrial vapors, which c ircumstance was doubtless owing to the extreme density of the air.
-- But if they feel a degree of cold in proportion to the elevation they attain in the atmosphere, we experienced quite a contrary effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had come from Court on these occasions, nay, if he had been the noble Refrigerator come home triumphantly from a foreign court to be presented and promoted on his last tremendous failure, Mrs Plornish could not have handed him with greater elevation about Bleeding Heart Yard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an abstraction in his eye, an elevation in his air, which might have warned an observant stranger that thoughts were passing in the beadle's mind, too great for utterance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.
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