upstairs是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 向楼上； 在楼上； 上楼ad. 楼上的，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If I can just live through this barbecue till this afternoon," she thought, "all the girls will go upstairs to take napsto be fresh for tonight and I'll stay downstairs and get to talk to Ashley.
-- Scarlett asked to be excused fromaccompanying them and went upstairs to her room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
-- But bearing in mind that them were which I meantersay of a stunning and outdacious sort,--alluding to them which bordered on weal-cutlets and dog-fighting,--a sincere well-wisher would adwise, Pip, their being dropped into your meditations, when you go upstairs to bed.
-- We went on our way upstairs after this episode; and, as we were going up, we met a gentleman groping his way down.
-- How Joe got out of the room, I have never been able to determine; but I know that when he did get out he was steadily proceeding upstairs instead of coming down, and was deaf to all remonstrances until I went after him and laid hold of him.
-- Then, came that singular calm and silence which succeed all uproars; and then, with the vague sensation which I have always connected with such a lull,--namely, that it was Sunday, and somebody was dead,--I went upstairs to dress myself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was great joy at their coming, and the prince flew to meet them, and lifted the maid from her horse, thinking she was the one who was to be his wife; and she was led upstairs to the royal chamber; but the true princess was told to stay in the court below.
-- Those upstairs waited for the drink, but Clever Elsie still did not come.
-- After a while, as the maid did not come back, and those upstairs were thirsty for the beer, the man said to the boy: 'Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie and the girl are.'
-- Upstairs they waited for the boy, but as he still did not return, the man said to the woman: 'Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is!'
-- The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come back and his thirst grew ever greater, he said: 'I must go into the cellar my-self and see where Elsie is.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took his end of candle from a shelf, lighted it at another end of candle on the counter, without disturbing the mistress of the shop who was asleep in her little room, and went upstairs into his lodging.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At ten o'clock Connie could go upstairs and be alone.
-- She waited patiently till she could go upstairs and think her own thoughts.
-- She went upstairs to her bedroom.
-- She went upstairs to change.
-- 'Would you like to go upstairs now?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she then went upstairs with her shoes in her hand, partly to be near the clever ones as a match for most ghosts, and partly to hear what they were talking about.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,' said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hum-mels.
-- I turned my foot a little, that's all,' and limped upstairs to put her things on.
-- Meg ran upstairs and soon came back again, looking re-lieved but rather bewildered, and a little ashamed.
-- It was late when she came back, and no one saw her creep upstairs and shut herself into her mother's room.
-- Then Polly had to be fed, the lap dog combed, and a dozen trips upstairs and down to get things or deliver orders, for the old lady was very lame and seldom left her big chair.
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