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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
-- Towards midday the balloon was hovering above the sea at a height of only 2,000 feet.
-- Two more hours passed and the balloon was scarcely 400 feet above the water.
-- At four o'clock the balloon was only 500 feet above the surface of the water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an old man with long grey hair, whose face and figure as he held the light above his head and looked before him as he approached, I could plainly see.
-- I'll bet that I'd find her if she was above ground, I would, as quick as anybody, master.
-- said the dwarf, who with his hand stretched out above his eyes had been surveying the young man attentively, 'that should be your grandson, neighbour!'
-- The dwarf watched him sharply, while he passed into the little sitting-room and locked it in an iron safe above the chimney-piece; and after musing for a short space, prepared to take his leave, observing that unless he made good haste, Mrs Quilp would certainly be in fits on his return.
-- It was in these apartments that Mr Swiveller made use of the expressions above recorded for the consolation and encouragement of his desponding friend; and it may not be uninteresting or improper to remark that even these brief observations partook in a double sense of the figurative and poetical character of Mr Swiveller's mind, as the rosy wine was in fact represented by one glass of cold gin-and-water, which was replenished as occasion required from a bottle and jug upon the table, and was passed from one to another, in a scarcity of tumblers which, as Mr Swiveller's was a bachelor's establishment, may be acknowledged without a blush.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ; v. 7._ "The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
-- Second, she valued him above all other men, hence, he thought she understood him.
-- If he were asked why he considered himself above the majority of people he would not be able to answer, as there was nothing in his life transcending the commonplace.
-- Entering his private chamber, and locking the door behind him, he produced from the lower shelf of a book-case two dumb-bells, made twenty motions upward, forward, sidewise and downward, and three times lowered himself, holding the bells above his head.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface."
-- Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.
-- "This little affair," said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, "is only a model.
-- In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink and, above all, my own inadequacy to express its quality.
-- I was still on the hillside upon which this house now stands, and the shoulder rose above me grey and dim.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Look on the branch above your head,' said the Gnat, 'and there you'll find a snap-dragon-fly.
-- she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.
-- But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim him above all."
-- Some of the man's money if he had any was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts.
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