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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The explorers are almost frozen on the heights of the Andes, and almost drowned in the floods of the Patagonian Pampas.
-- Lord Edward Glenarvan was on board with his young wife, Lady Helena, and one of his cousins, Major McNabbs.
-- She was returning to Glasgow, and the Isle of Arran already loomed in the distance, when the sailor on watch caught sight of an enormous fish sporting in the wake of the ship.
-- Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort of an animal he thought it was.
-- "A shark on these shores!"
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：
-- 'I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.'
-- On what occasion would it be most probable that such a presentation would be made?
-- Is it, then, stretching our inference too far to say that the presentation was on the occasion of the change?'
-- 'Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
-- If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician little more than a senior student.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Part I I owards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine To'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Peters- burg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.
-- All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their com- plexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.
-- 'They could not teach me very much on account of my illness. '
-- As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter since the in-formation as to the identity of Rogojin hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
-- 'I thought some creature like you would hang on to me as soon as I got hold of my money. '
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
-- And which of the gods was it that set them on to quar-rel?
-- On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.
-- He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.
-- His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, 'Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rapped down the mustard pot on the table, and then she noticed the overcoat and hat had been taken off and put over a chair in front of the fire, and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender.
-- She placed the hat on the chair again by the fire.
-- She put on some more coal, unfolded the clothes-horse, and extended the traveller's coat upon this.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that very instant, a loud knock sounded on the door.
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