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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.
-- Individual straws in the foreground were consumed in a creeping movement of ruddy heat, as if they were knots of red worms, and above shone imaginary fiery faces, tongues hanging from lips, glaring eyes, and other impish forms, from which at intervals sparks flew in clusters like birds from a nest.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Access into the graveled walk is afforded by a door, above which the words MAISON VAUQUER may be read, and beneath, in rather smaller letters, "_Lodgings for both sexes, etc._" During the day a glimpse into the garden is easily obtained through a wicket to which a bell is attached.
-- Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
-- Above the third story there was a garret where the linen was hung to dry, and a couple of attics.
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
-- Eugene de Rastignac had just returned to Paris in a state of mind not unknown to young men who are conscious of unusual powers, and to those whose faculties are so stimulated by a difficult position, that for the time being they rise above the ordinary level.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
-- Among these there was one which at-tracted my mother far above all the rest.
-- I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled.
-- But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
-- For a short space of time I re-mained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But rich planters were few in the youngcounty of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among thesons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a very few cases, even poor whites,if they were above the average of their class.
-- The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, andthe unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
-- He had come hastily, as many a better andworse Irishman before and since, with the clothes he had on his back, two shillings above his passage money and aprice on his head that he felt was larger than his misdeed warranted.
-- As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie,no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
-- Pork lit one lamp and three candles and, with the pompousdignity of a first chamberlain of the royal bedchamber lighting a king and queen to their rooms, he led the processionup the stairs, holding the light high above his head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew my way to the Battery, pretty straight, for I had been down there on a Sunday with Joe, and Joe, sitting on an old gun, had told me that when I was 'prentice to him, regularly bound, we would have such Larks there!However, in the confusion of the mist, I found myself at last too far to the right, and consequently had to try back along the river-side, on the bank of loose stones above the mud and the stakes that staked the tide out.
-- Not above a mile, I reckon?"
-- I thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen, and how I had come up to bed from the kitchen, and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common doings.
-- "Now you see, Joseph and wife," said Pumblechook, as he took me by the arm above the elbow, "I am one of them that always go right through with what they've begun.
-- Above all, she was a blessing to Joe, for the dear old fellow was sadly cut up by the constant contemplation of the wreck of his wife, and had been accustomed, while attending on her of an evening, to turn to me every now and then and say, with his blue eyes moistened, "Such a fine figure of a woman as she once were, Pip!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
-- When he was halfway up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants.
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