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：
-- From that elevation he could see the whole extent of the "pah," and as far as Kai-Koumou's house.
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：
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- Though his person was more than usually screened by a green and fringed hunting-shirt, like that of the white man, there was no concealment to his dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red; or to the dignified elevation of his receding fore-head, together with all the finest proportions of a noble head, bared to the generous scalping tuft.
-- It possessed no other apparent advantage for a resting place, than in its elevation and form, which might render defense easy, and surprise nearly impossible.
-- After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.
-- Then, with an elevation of breeding that many in a more cultivated state of society might profitably emulate, one of the chiefs drew the attention of the young men from the weakness they had just witnessed, by saying, in a cheer-ful voice, addressing himself in courtesy to Magua, as the newest comer: 'The Delawares have been like bears after the honey pots, prowling around my village.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily for the engineer and his companions the weather was beautiful, the atmosphere tranquil; for a high breeze at an elevation of three thousand feet would have hindered their proceedings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Quilp, either because frightening anybody afforded him a constitutional delight, or because it was pleasant to contemplate the death of Mrs Quilp number one, and the elevation of Mrs Quilp number two to her post and title, or because he was determined from purposes of his own to be agreeable and good-humoured at that particular time, only laughed and feigned to take no heed of her alarm.
-- To which Mr Chuckster replied, with an elevation of speech becoming a Glorious Apollo, that he was 'everlastingly blessed' if he did.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On an elevation to the right were two rows of chairs, also with high backs, reserved for the jury; below these were tables for the attorneys.
-- As the judges ascended the elevation in their uniforms, with gold-laced collars, they presented an imposing array.
-- While the jury were mounting the steps to the elevation where the desk stood, the priest wriggled his bald, hoary head through the opening of the stole, then rearranging his scanty hair, he turned to the jury: "Raise your right hands and keep your fingers thus," he said, in a slow, feeble voice, raising his bloated hand and pointing at his forehead with the first three of its dimpled fingers.
-- In the depth of his soul he already felt that he was a rascal, who ought to be ashamed to look people in the face, and yet, by force of habit, he walked to the elevation with his customary air of self-confidence, and took his seat next to the foreman, crossed his legs and began to play with his pince-nez.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, and elevation of the Nautilus.
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