upright是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 垂直的, 直立的; 正直的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of timber which spanned the roof.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I consider you the most honest and upright of men more honest and upright than any other man; and if anybody says that your mind is is sometimes affected, you know it is unfair.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First they went to Diomed son of Tydeus, and found him outside his tent clad in his armour with his comrades sleeping round him and using their shields as pillows; as for their spears, they stood upright on the spikes of their butts that were driven into the ground, and the burnished bronze flashed afar like the lightning of father Jove.
-- With these words he moved the heart of Aeneas, and he went in pursuit of Idomeneus, big with great deeds of valour; but Idomeneus was not to be thus daunted as though he were a mere child; he held his ground as a wild boar at bay upon the mountains, who abides the coming of a great crowd of men in some lonely place the bristles stand upright on his back, his eyes flash fire, and he whets his tusks in his eager-ness to defend himself against hounds and men even so did famed Idomeneus hold his ground and budge not at the coming of Aeneas.
-- He sat upright and said, 'Son of Atreus, and all other princes of the Achaeans, first pour red wine everywhere upon the fire and quench it; let us then gather the bones of Patroclus son of Menoetius, singling them out with care; they are eas-ily found, for they lie in the middle of the pyre, while all else, both men and horses, has been thrown in a heap and burned at the outer edge.
-- Then they brought a yoke-band eleven cu-bits long, to bind the yoke to the pole; they bound it on at the far end of the pole, and put the ring over the upright pin making it fast with three turns of the band on either side the knob, and bending the thong of the yoke beneath it.
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：
-- These Mohicans and I will do what man's thoughts can in-vent, to keep such flowers, which, though so sweet, were never made for the wilderness, from harm, and that without hope of any other recompense but such as God always gives to upright dealings.
-- A loud shriek from the younger of the sisters, and the form of the other standing upright before him, in bewil-dered horror, was the unexpected answer he received.
-- His vision became more acute as the shades of evening settled on the place; and even after the stars were glimmering above his head, he was able to dis-tinguish the recumbent forms of his companions, as they lay stretched on the grass, and to note the person of Ch-ingachgook, who sat upright and motionless as one of the trees which formed the dark barrier on every side.
-- Duncan cast his eyes behind him, and saw that the trem-bling sisters were cowering in the far corner of the building, while the Mohicans stood in the shadow, like two upright posts, ready, and apparently willing, to strike when the blow should be needed.
-- The head of Chingach-gook was resting on a hand, as he sat musing by himself but the moment he had heard the warning of the animal whose name he bore, he arose to an upright position, and his dark eyes glanced swiftly and keenly on every side of him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harding, therefore, thought of suspending a mass of iron, weighing several pounds, by means of a fiber, to an upright just above the mine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Looking into the eyes of Mrs and Miss Wackles for encouragement, and sitting very upright and uncomfortable on a couple of hard stools, were two of the day-scholars; and when Miss Wackles smiled, and Mrs Wackles smiled, the two little girls on the stools sought to curry favour by smiling likewise, in gracious acknowledgement of which attention the old lady frowned them down instantly, and said that if they dared to be guilty of such an impertinence again, they should be sent under convoy to their respective homes.
-- Late as the Dutch clock showed it to be, the poor woman was still hard at work at an ironing-table; a young child lay sleeping in a cradle near the fire; and another, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night-cap on his head, and a night-gown very much too small for him on his body, was sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, staring over the rim with his great round eyes, and looking as if he had thoroughly made up his mind never to go to sleep any more; which, as he had already declined to take his natural rest and had been brought out of bed in consequence, opened a cheerful prospect for his relations and friends.
-- His master having shown him the whip resumed his seat and called up the others, who, at his directions, formed in a row, standing upright as a file of soldiers.
-- Did they believe that a man like Brass could reside in a place like Bevis Marks, and not be a virtuous and most upright character?
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so saying, she went off to the other end of the shop, and set the egg upright on a shelf.
-- 'First you take an upright stick,' said the Knight.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silver never moved; he watched them, very upright on his crutch, and looked as cool as ever I saw him.
-- Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: "Pieces of eight!Pieces of eight!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to stand upright in the interior of the Nautilus.
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：
-- Amazing heights of upright grandeur.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had remarked on one side of the road, at intervals of six or seven yards, a line of upright stones, continued through the whole length of the barren: these were erected and daubed with lime on purpose to serve as guides in the dark, and also when a fall, like the present, confounded the deep swamps on either hand with the firmer path: but, excepting a dirty dot pointing up here and there, all traces of their existence had vanished: and my companion found it necessary to warn me frequently to steer to the right or left, when I imagined I was following, correctly, the windings of the road.
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