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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She hung his muffler on a corner of the horse.
-- There was my sister's son, Tom, jest cut his arm with a scythe, tumbled on it in the 'ayfield, and, bless me!he was three months tied up sir.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
-- We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them.
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
-- For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a lit-tle ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea.
-- The name on the boat was the 'Lady Vain,' and there were spots of blood on the gunwale.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
-- 'Faugh!Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!'
-- The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
-- Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night.
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
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：
-- Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- Of all the tribes named in these pages, there exist only a few half-civilized beings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New York.
-- There is one point on which we would wish to say a word before closing this preface.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchant-ed region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horse-back, without a head.
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
-- I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time no critic has enjoyed in France a more incontestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly established on the lines which he laid down.
-- But I will allow that the critic who has not a practical knowledge of technique is seldom able to say anything on the subject of real value, and my ignorance of painting is extreme.
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