upper是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 上面的； 上部的， 较高的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare.
-- The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was yet an upper staircase, of a steeper inclination and of contracted dimensions, to be ascended, before the garret story was reached.
-- The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apoc-270 A tale of two citiesryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.
-- They had not made the round of their changed life many weeks, when her father said to her, on coming home one evening: 'My dear, there is an upper window in the prison, to which Charles can sometimes gain access at three in the af-393ternoon.
-- 'From the time of our alighting at the outer gate (which we found locked, and which one of the brothers had opened to admit us, and had relocked), I had heard cries proceeding from an upper chamber.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only wish I were already on the upper bank"* *In these Russian (vapor) baths the person extends him-self on a bank or form, and as he gets accustomed to the heat, moves to another higher up towards the ceiling, where, of course, the vapor is warmest.
-- He was soon met by two schoolboys of the upper class-that is to say as individuals, for with regard to learning they were in the lowest class in the school; and they bought the stupid bird.
-- In the hurry they have forgotten to shut your cage, and the upper window is open.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.
-- Vronsky intentionally avoided that select crowd of the upper world, which was moving and talking with discreet freedom before the pavilions.
-- The impulsive abruptness of her movements was such that at every step the lines of her knees and the upper part of her legs were distinctly marked under her dress, and the question involuntarily rose to the mind where in the undulating, piled-up mountain of material at the back the real body of the woman, so small and slender, so naked in front, and so hidden behind and below, really came to an end.
-- There were, as always, the same ladies of some sort with officers of some sort in the back of the boxes; the same gaily dressed women--God knows who--and uniforms and black coats; the same dirty crowd in the upper gallery; and among the crowd, in the boxes and in the front rows, were some forty of the REAL people.
-- For you it's a question of whether you keep the upper hand of me, while for me...." Again she felt sorry for herself, and she almost burst into tears.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix smiled at this remark; and, in order to be able to see without being jostled about, the party took up a position on the top of a flight of steps situated at the upper end of Montgomery Street.
-- One of the parties had evidently been repulsed; but the mere lookers-on could not tell whether Mandiboy or Camerfield had gained the upper hand.
-- "Yes; at least the upper part of her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might have kept his doubts to himself, revolving them slowly as he dissected out the nerves of the mangled upper arm, but Ira Hinkley would not let him alone.
-- As he lay in his narrow upper bunk at midnight, he saw her eyes, now impertinent, now reproving, now warm with trust in him.
-- In a two-family house on Social Hill, which is not a hill but a slight swelling in the plain, Martin and Leora found an upper floor.
-- "Yes, the best room for you would be that big one on the upper floor, to the right of the elevators.
-- Beyond the courtyard walls were the upper stories of a balconied Chinese shop and the violent- colored skylight of The Blue Bazaar.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The innkeeper came down from the upper room, apparently on purpose to listen to the 'funny fellow' and sat down at a little distance, yawning lazily, but with dignity.
-- Raskolnikov lay with a white face and twitching upper lip, breathing painfully.
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