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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a pock-marked wench of thirty, covered with bruises, with her upper lip swollen.
-- He had turned fearfully pale and his upper lip was twitching and quivering.
-- The cellar rats will swim out, and men will curse in the rain and wind as they drag their rubbish to their upper storeys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 79Mr. Mell having left me while he took his irreparable bootsupstairs, I went softly to the upper end of the room, observing allthis as I crept along.
-- How vividly I call to mind the damp about the house, the greencracked flagstones in the court, an old leaky water-butt, and thediscoloured trunks of some of the grim trees, which seemed tohave dripped more in the rain than other trees, and to have blownless in the sun!At one we dined, Mr. Mell and I, at the upper endof a long bare dining-room, full of deal tables and smelling of fat.
-- The soles hadshed themselves bit by bit, and the upper leathers had broken andburst until the very shape and form of shoes had departed fromthem.
-- My aunt, with her hands behind her, walkedup and down the room, until the gentleman who had squinted atme from the upper window came in laughing.
-- I am taken home in a sad plight, and I have beefsteaks put to myeyes, and am rubbed with vinegar and brandy, and find a greatwhite puffy place bursting out on my upper lip, which swellsimmoderately.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
-- I am as con-fident of seeing Frank here before the middle of January, as I am of being here myself: but your good friend there (nod-ding towards the upper end of the table) has so few vagaries herself, and has been so little used to them at Hartfield, that she cannot calculate on their effects, as I have been long in the practice of doing.'
-- I heard a good deal of Colonel Campbell's taste at Weymouth; and the softness of the upper notes I am sure is exactly what he and all that party would particularly prize.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- From the contours of her figure in its upper part, she must have had a beautiful neck and shoulders; but since her infancy nobody had ever seen them.
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
-- "Ay, sure," said his son, a young man about sixty-five, with a semi-bald head and one tooth in the left centre of his upper jaw, which made much of itself by standing prominent, like a milestone in a bank.
-- I bode at Upper Longpuddle across there" (nodding to the north) "till I were eleven.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to delight in scourging the upper classes of society with the lash of his tongue, to take pleasure in convicting it of inconsistency, in mocking at law and order with some grim jest worthy of Juvenal, as if some grudge against the social system rankled in him, as if there were some mystery carefully hidden away in his life.
-- It was as if a sudden light had pierced the obscurity of this upper world of Paris, and he began to see, though everything was indistinct as yet.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its tooshort, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlishgiggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.
-- She looked about the crowd, picking out friends and neighbors, Mrs. Meade with her bonnet askew and her armthough that of fifteen-year-old Phil; the Misses McLure trying to make their trembling upper lips cover their buckteeth; Mrs. Elsing, erect as a Spartan mother, betraying her inner turmoil only by the straggling gray locks that hungfrom her chignon; and Fanny Elsing white as a ghost (Surely Fanny wouldn't be so worried about her brother Hugh.
-- And as shereached the upper floor, she heard him obligingly slam the door for her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- remarked Camilla, amiably repressing a sob, while a hitch came into her upper lip, and her tears overflowed.
-- He led me into a corner and conducted me up a flight of stairs,--which appeared to me to be slowly collapsing into sawdust, so that one of those days the upper lodgers would look out at their doors and find themselves without the means of coming down,--to a set of chambers on the top floor.
-- Poor dear Joe, entangled in a little black cloak tied in a large bow under his chin, was seated apart at the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been stationed by Trabb.
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