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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The house with the bow-window," said Wemmick, "being by the river-side, down the Pool there between Limehouse and Greenwich, and being kept, it seems, by a very respectable widow who has a furnished upper floor to let, Mr. Herbert put it to me, what did I think of that as a temporary tenement for Tom, Jack, or Richard?
-- All that water-side region of the upper and lower Pool below Bridge was unknown ground to me; and when I struck down by the river, I found that the spot I wanted was not where I had supposed it to be, and was anything but easy to find.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The giant made the 101attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.
-- 'Wife,' said the man, 'go into the garret; on the upper shelf you will see a pair of red shoes; bring them to me.'
-- The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of them was covered, and seemed all of a piece: but at the upper end of the other there appeared a white round substance, about twice the bigness of our heads.
-- It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every 100 Gulliver's Travelsstep was six-feet high, and the upper stone about twenty.
-- The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.
-- The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred 209yards distant from the centre.
-- At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called flandona gagnole, or the astronomer's cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, the various members of Sleary's company gradually gathered together from the upper regions, where they were quartered, and, from standing about, talking in low voices to one another and to Mr. Childers, gradually insinuated themselves and him into the room.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were any such heat to exist, the upper crust of the earth would be shattered to atoms, and the world would be at an end."
-- A manometer worked by compressed air, an instrument used to ascertain the upper atmospheric pressure on the level of the ocean.
-- At length a time came when despite the enormous thickness and weight of the upper crust, the mechanical forces of the combustible gases below became so great, that they actually upheaved the weighty back and made for themselves huge and gigantic shafts.
-- Hence the volcanoes which suddenly arose through the upper crust, and next the craters, which burst forth at the summit of these new creations.
-- I looked upwards, and saw only the upper orifice of the cone, which served as a circular frame to a very small portion of the sky--a portion which seemed to me singularly beautiful.
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：
-- He pined to be where he didn't belong...among the English upper classes.
-- She felt almost upper class; and at the same time a resentment against the ruling class smouldered in her.
-- But when there was no question of contest, she was pining to be superior, to be one of the upper class.
-- The upper classes fascinated her, appealing to her peculiar English passion for superiority.
-- Now Clifford made her feel small, and like a servant, and she accepted it without a word, adjusting herself to the upper classes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Flintwinch went on to spread the upper sheet over the bed, and the blanket over that, and the counterpane over that, as if she had quite concluded her story.
-- This brought them to the tavern-establishment at the upper end of the prison, where the collegians had just vacated their social evening club.
-- No movement or voice was heard when he opened the door; no wicked head tied up in a ragged handkerchief looked out of the upper window.
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