ascend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 渐渐上升， 升高vt. 攀登， 登上，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to blow af-ter heat, even so did Diomed son of Tydeus see Mars ascend into the broad heavens.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unable any longer to quiet his uneasiness, Duncan spoke in a low voice to the scout, requesting him to ascend the mound to the place where he stood.
-- After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We are on volcanic ground," Cyrus Harding had said, and his companions following him began to ascend by degrees on the back of a spur, which, by a winding and consequently more accessible path, joined the first plateau.
-- It was necessary to ascend by zigzags to make the slope more easy, for it was very steep, and the footing being exceedingly precarious required the greatest caution.
-- The little band left the cavern and began to ascend through the dark passage.
-- They had to profit by the low tide to cross the Channel, and it was agreed that they would construct, for this purpose, as well as they could, a boat which would render communication so much easier, and would also permit them to ascend the Mercy, at the time of their grand exploration of the southwest of the island, which was put off till the first fine days.
-- "Captain," asked the sailor, "would it not be a good plan, before setting out, to build a canoe in which we could either ascend the river, or, if we liked, coast round the inland?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come nearer, nearer still,' said she, beckoning to her to ascend the steps.
-- Making his voice ascend in the scale with every succeeding question, Mr Quilp finished in a shrill squeak, and subsided into the panting look which was customary with him, and which, whether it were assumed or natural, had equally the effect of banishing all expression from his face, and rendering it, as far as it afforded any index to his mood or meaning, a perfect blank.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Also," he added, "true existence is there; and I can imagine the foundations of nautical towns, clusters of submarine houses, which, like the Nautilus, would ascend every morning to breathe at the surface of the water, free towns, independent cities.
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