above是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 上述的ad. 在上面prep. 在…之上， 高于，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.
-- In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these din-ners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.
-- The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christ-mas song it had been a very old song when he was a boy and from time to time they all joined in the chorus.
-- The Spirit did not tarry here, but bade Scrooge hold his robe, and passing on above the moor, sped whither.
-- Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea on, on until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, by this time she trembled under such strong emotion, and her face expressed such deep anxiety, and, above all, such dread and terror, that Mr. Lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reassurance.
-- At fast, he slept heavily, but, by degrees, began to roll and surge in bed, until he rose above the surface, with his spiky hair looking as if it must tear the sheets to ribbons.
-- 108 A tale of two cities Loitering on the way out of court not being allowed, Jerry heard no more: but left them so like each other in feature, so unlike each other in manner standing side by side, both reflected in the glass above them.
-- Mysterious backs and ends of houses peeped at them as they talked, and the plane-tree whispered to them in its own way above their heads.
-- shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extend-ing both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The matter of which it was built was just as soft, and formed similar towers, and domes, and pil-lars, transparent and rocking in the thin air; while above his head our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball.
-- *The watchmen in Germany, had formerly, and in some places they still carry with them, on their rounds at night, a sort of mace or club, known in ancient times by the above denomination.
-- * temple He now crept on hands and feet through a butcher's shop; at least on every side, and above and below, there was nought but flesh.
-- The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
-- Neither the sunbeams, nor the birds, nor the red clouds which morning and evening sailed above him, gave the lit-tle Tree any pleasure.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His good-naturedly beaming face above the embroidered collar of his uniform beamed more than ever when he recognized the man coming up.
-- But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
-- The mysterious, enchanting Kitty herself could not love such an ugly person as he conceived himself to be, and, above all, such an ordinary, in no way striking person.
-- But what always struck him in her as something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all, her smile, which always transported Levin to an enchanted world, where he felt himself softened and tender, as he remembered himself in some days of his early childhood.
-- Levin went to the steps, took a run from above as best he cold, and dashed down, preserving his balance in this unwonted movement with his hands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The minarets of the town loomed above the houses in the pale rays of the sun.
-- During the night the train left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next day proceeded over the flat, well-cultivated country of the Khandeish, with its straggling villages, above which rose the minarets of the pagodas.
-- The pagoda, whose minarets loomed above the trees in the deepening dusk, stood a hundred steps away.
-- The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.
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