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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Phileas Fogg moved about above them in the most majestic and unconscious indifference.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the central room of the three occupied by Doc Vickerson, facing on Main Street above the New York Clothing Bazaar.
-- He dipped his hands in the bichloride solution and shook them--a quick shake, fingers down, like the fingers of a pianist above the keys.
-- And round about the village, the living wheat, arched above by tremendous clouds.
-- A light was suddenly flickering in a window above them, and there was a woman's scream breaking down into moans.
-- Geake had one classic annual address in which, winging far above otolaryngology, he evaluated all medicine, and explained to grateful healers like Irving Watters the method of getting suitable fees: "Knowledge is the greatest thing in the medical world but it's no good whatever unless you can sell it, and to do this you must first impress your personality on the people who have the dollars.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim, well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair.
-- Yes, filthy above all, disgusting, loathsome, loathsome! and for a whole month I've been芒聙娄.'
-- For instance, at his second visit, after he had received Dounia's consent, in the course of conversation, he declared that before making Dounia's acquaintance, he had made up his mind to marry a girl of good reputation, without dowry and, above all, one who had experienced poverty, because, as he explained, a man ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is better for a wife to look upon her husband as 56 Crime and Punishmenther benefactor.
-- She is as rich as a Jew, she can give you five thousand roubles at a time and she is not above taking a pledge for a rouble.
-- 'Of course it would be better if they had not been here, but 芒聙娄 it's two storeys above them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but BetseyTrotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams andshadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled;and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the 19earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above theashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had neverbeen.
-- There has been a time since- Ido not say it lasted long, but it has been- when I have asked myselfthe question, would it have been better for little Em'ly to have hadthe waters close above her head that morning in my sight; andwhen I have answered Yes, it would have been.
-- Above allthe noise we made, I heard them running up the stairs, and cryingout- I heard my mother crying out- and Peggotty.
-- I picture myself coming downstairs in the morning,and looking through a long ghastly gash of a staircase window atthe school-bell hanging on the top of an outhouse with a weather-cock above it; and dreading the time when it shall ring J. Steerforthand the rest to work.
-- As long as herpoor dear pretty was above the ground, she said, she would neverdesert her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a farmer can need none of my help, and is, therefore, in one sense, as much above my notice as in every other he is below it.'
-- The style of the letter was much above her expec-tation.
-- He came to ask me whether I thought it would be imprudent in him to settle so early; whether I thought her too young: in short, whether I approved his choice al-together; having some apprehension perhaps of her being considered (especially since your making so much of her) as in a line of society above him.
-- They would be estimated very differently by others as well as myself; Mr. Martin may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society. The sphere in which she moves is much above his. It would be a degradation.'
-- He had gone be-yond the sweep some way along the Highbury road the snow was nowhere above half an inch deep in many places hardly enough to whiten the ground; a very few flakes were 156 Emmafalling at present, but the clouds were parting, and there was every appearance of its being soon over.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dog-star and Aldebaran, pointing to the restless Pleiades, were half-way up the Southern sky, and between them hung Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the landscape.
-- It was not a bridle-path merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.
-- She seemed tall, but the pail was a small one, and the hedge diminutive; hence, making allowance for error by comparison with these, she could have been not above the height to be chosen by women as best.
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