over是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在上方； 遍及地prep. 在的上方a. 结束的，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
-- Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
-- It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch.
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- It was a queer sort of place a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, 'Let me see the child, and die.'
-- She imprinted her cold white lips passionately on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly round; shuddered; fell back--and died.
-- The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand.
-- Oliver had not been within the walls of the workhouse a quarter of an hour, and had scarcely completed the demolition of a second slice of bread, when Mr. Bumble, who had handed him over to the care of an old woman, returned; and, telling him it was a board night, informed him that the board had said he was to appear before it forthwith.
-- Poor Oliver!He little thought, as he lay sleeping in happy unconsciousness of all around him, that the board had that very day arrived at a decision which would exercise the most material influence over all his future fortunes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.'
-- The girls grieved over such a number of la-dies, but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only six with him from London his five sisters and a cousin.
-- That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morn- ing after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.
-- The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Mery-ton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.
-- Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: 'MY DEAREST LIZZY, 'I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hand with which he held the grating (seamed all over the back with ugly scratches newly healed), was unusually small and plump; would have been unusually white but for the prison grime.
-- See here!Marseilles harbour;' on his knees on the pavement, mapping it all out with a swarthy forefinger; 'Toulon (where the galleys are), Spain over there, Algiers over there.
-- Whereas she had put the lump of coarse bread into the swart, scaled, knotted hands of John Baptist (who had scarcely as much nail on his eight fingers and two thumbs as would have made out one for Monsieur Rigaud), with ready confidence; and, when he kissed her hand, had herself passed it caressingly over his face.
-- His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster!It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and man-ners!I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.
-- Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
-- 'Hurry and get done!Don't stop to quirk your little finger and simper over your plate, Amy,' cried Jo, choking on her tea and dropping her bread, butter side down, on the carpet in her haste to get at the treat.
-- Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready.
-- If I wasn't too old for such things, I'd rather like to play it over again,' said Amy, who began to talk of renouncing childish things at the mature age of twelve.
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