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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anyway, though we are forty miles off, yet I tell you the Peak of Teneriffe is quite visible yonder above the horizon."
-- "It is 11,000 feet, though, above the level of the sea."
-- At five in the evening they stopped in a gorge of no great depth, some miles above the little town of Loja, and encamped for the night at the foot of the Sierras, the first steppes of the great Cordilleras.
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：
-- The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.
-- The light beat upon him where he stood, but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him.
-- Black beams shot across above our heads, with a smoke-darkened ceiling beyond them.
-- It was a pleasant walk of four miles along the edge of the moor, leading me at last to a small gray hamlet, in which two larg-er buildings, which proved to be the inn and the house of Dr. Mortimer, stood high above the rest.
-- The western win-dow through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house it commands the nearest outlook on the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- This last fact could, of course, reflect nothing but credit upon the general; and yet, though unquestionably a saga-cious man, he had his own little weaknesses-very excusable ones, one of which was a dislike to any allusion to the above circumstance.
-- IV LL three of the Miss Epanchins were fine, healthy Agirls, wellgrown, with good shoulders and busts, and strong almost masculine hands; and, of course, with all the above attributes, they enjoyed capital appetites, of which they were not in the least ashamed.
-- Totski was very eloquent all through, and, in conclusion, just touched on the fact that not a soul in the world, not even General Epanchin, had ever heard a word about the above seventy-five thousand roubles, and that this was the first time he had ever given expression to his intentions in respect to them.
-- Getting anxious at last when no money was forthcoming, and alarmed above all by his patient's appetite, he presented him with a pair of old gai-ters and a shabby cloak and packed him off to Russia, third class.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have others here who will do me honour, and above all Jove, the lord of counsel.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- It hovered over his head in the likeness of Nestor, son of Neleus, whom Agamemnon honoured above all his councillors, and said: 'You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the wel-fare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.
-- Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust, as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all.
-- Hector, I charge you above all others, do as I say.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the fact that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of his face exposed excepting only his pink, peaked nose.
-- came in a tone of angry expostulation from above the collar of the figure.
-- "Now," said the Voice, as a third stone curved upward and hung in the air above the tramp.
-- For a minute perhaps he sat, pen in mouth, admiring the rich golden colour above the crest, and then his attention was attracted by the little figure of a man, inky black, running over the hill-brow towards him.
-- It came to rest poised twenty inches above the front edge of the seat of the chair.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
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