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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wouldn't move a step quicker, or slower, whether he walked upstairs to bed or mounted a breach.
-- It was one o'clock in the morning when Lady Helena and Miss Grant ventured upstairs on deck.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terri-ble oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
-- 'Sir Henry Baskerville is upstairs expecting you,' said the clerk.
-- We have established a most important fact by these questions, Watson,' he continued in a low voice as we went upstairs together.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worthy Obed tells us, that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest of the day, he was shut up in the back kitchen, in company with a pump and a slice of bread; and at night, Mrs. Sowerberry, after making various remarks outside the door, by no means complimentary to the memory of his mother, looked into the room, and, amidst the jeers and pointings of Noah and Charlotte, ordered him upstairs to his dismal bed.
-- The girl, who was not quite so susceptible, had run upstairs meanwhile; and now returned with a request that Mr. Bumble would follow her immediately: which he did.
-- The rooms upstairs had great high wooden chimney -pieces and large doors, with panelled walls and cornices to the ceiling; which, although they were black with neglect and dust, were ornamented in various ways.
-- In the short time he had had to collect his senses, the boy had firmly resolved that, whether he died in the attempt or not, he would make one effort to dart upstairs from the hall, and alarm the family.
-- --Of shoes, sir,' said Giles, turning upon him, and laying great emphasis on the word; 'seized the loaded pistol that always goes upstairs with the plate-basket; and walked on tiptoes to his room.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the middle of the next day, as she was in her room getting ready for a walk, a sudden noise below seemed to speak the whole house in confusion; and, after listening a moment, she heard somebody running upstairs in a vio-lent hurry, and calling loudly after her.
-- 'I am sure I know none so handsome; but in the gallery upstairs you will see a finer, larger picture of him than this.
-- She is upstairs and will have great satisfaction in seeing you all.
-- They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from thence to the library; their father was in neither; and they were on the point of seeking him upstairs with their mother, when they were met by the butler, who said: 'If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse.'
-- Elizabeth took the letter from his writing-table, and they went upstairs together.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, was astonished to see Edward himself come out.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They did want some help upstairs a few days ago.
-- The flow of Carrie's meditations had been disturbed, and Hanson had not long gone upstairs before she followed.
-- They went on dining, while he went upstairs for his hat and coat.
-- He felt as if he could say a good word all around himself, and took a most genial glance at the spread table and polished sideboard before going upstairs to read his paper in the comfortable armchair of the sitting-room which looked through the open windows into the street.
-- "They've got a place upstairs here, I understand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We paddled out and got aboard clumb in at an upstairs window.
-- I couldn't make anything out of that, so I put the paper in the book again, and when I got home and upstairs there was Miss Sophia in her door waiting for me.
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