on是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 连接上prep. 在…上； 靠近ad. 向前， 继续，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- The smaller of its hands, too, occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant.
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- The half-obliterated inscription on the pedestal beneath determines the date of 莽卢卢 2 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 this work of art, for it bears witness to the widespread enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on his return to Paris in 1777: "Whoe'er thou art, thy master see; He is, or was, or ought to be."
-- A straight path beneath the walls on either side of the garden leads to a clump of lime-trees at the further end of it; _line_-trees, as Mme.
-- At the side of the house there are but two windows on each floor, and the lowest of all are adorned with a heavy iron grating.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are ban-ished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
-- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to -induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holi-day mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthu-siasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them in-creased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnishedglasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossednegligently.
-- A little aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay ablack-spotted carriage dog, muzzle on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon.
-- He's kind ofset on getting an education, and you two have pulled him out of the University of Virginia and Alabama and SouthCarolina and now Georgia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
-- The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
扩展阅读：