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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced; which is just within the bounds of possibility."
-- His person attracted attention, but above all the boldness of his look, which gave a singular expression to his face.
-- Very well, when you dive, Ned, as many times 32 feet of water as there are above you, so many times does your body bear a pressure equal to that of the atmosphere, that is to say, 15 lb.
-- Now leaning on the netting of the forecastle, now on the taffrail, I devoured with eagerness the soft foam which whitened the sea as far as the eye could reach; and how often have I shared the emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious whale raised its black back above the waves!The poop of the vessel was crowded on a moment.
-- There, a mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her son was of a fair, sun-tanned type, rather above middle height, well-made, and almost exaggeratedly well-dressed.
-- He glanced up, unaware, and saw the bride and her father standing on the path above him.
-- Her spirit was active, her life like a shoot that is growing steadily, but which has not yet come above ground.
-- Her nude, protuberant body crouched in a strange, clutching posture, her hands gripping the ends of the band, above her breast.
-- It was of green poplin, with a loose coat above it, of broad, dark-green and dark-brown stripes.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.'
-- Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
-- I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on!'Begone!'
-- He took to Heathcliff strangely, believing all he said (for that matter, he said precious little, and generally the truth), and petting him up far above Cathy, who was too mischievous and wayward for a favourite.
-- We searched the house, above and below, and the yard and stables; they were invisible: and, at last, Hindley in a passion told us to bolt the doors, and swore nobody should let them in that night.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: "Bulk of treasure here."
-- 9 Powder and ArmsHE Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us.
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