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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The name of the yacht was the DUNCAN, and the owner was Lord Glenarvan, one of the sixteen Scotch peers who sit in the Upper House, and the most distinguished member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, so famous throughout the United Kingdom.
-- "There, there, by the upper end of the bowsprit."
-- Young Grant and the agile Wilson were scarcely perched on the tree before they had climbed to the upper branches and put their heads through the leafy dome to get a view of the vast horizon.
-- Paddy was quite amazed at the splendor of the saloon, and was loud in admiration of the fitting up of the cabins, and the carpets and hangings, as well as of the polished maple-wood of the upper deck.
-- In fact, they had only to lower the upper yard to bring the sail to its smallest size.
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：
-- When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.
-- In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end, until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
-- As we watched it the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one dense bank, on which the upper floor and the roof floated like a strange ship upon a shadowy sea.
-- So as the fog-bank flowed onward we fell back before it until we were half a mile from the house, and still that dense white sea, with the moon silvering its upper edge, swept slowly and inexorably on.
-- On the upper floor, however, one of the bedroom doors was locked.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrived at her own house, Varia heard a considerable commotion going on in the upper storey, and distinguished the voices of her father and brother.
-- Atheism!In our country it is only among the upper classes that you find unbelievers; men who have lost the root or spirit of their faith; but abroad whole masses of the people are beginning to profess unbelief at first because of the darkness and lies by which they were surrounded; but now out of fanaticism, out of loathing for the Church and Christianity!'
-- There is so much written and said about you!I came here today with anxious curiosity; I wished to see for my-self and form my own convictions as to whether it were true that the whole of this upper stratum of Russian society is WORTHLESS, has outlived its time, has existed too long, and is only fit to die and yet is dying with petty, spiteful warring against that which is destined to supersede it and take its place hindering the Coming Men, and knowing not that itself is in a dying condition.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Astyoche a noble maiden bore them in the house of Actor son of Azeus; for she had gone with Mars secretly into an upper chamber, and he had lain with her.
-- Opposite these, on the other side the courtyard, there were twelve upper rooms also of hewn stone for Priam's daugh-ters, built near one another, where his sons-in-law slept with their wives.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She suited action to word, fastened the piece of leather, which was eventually to form the right half of the upper of a man's shoe, by little adjustable clamps, and pushed a small steel rod at the side of the machine.
-- He kept a horse and neat trap, had his wife and two children, who were well established in a neat house on the North Side near Lincoln Park, and was altogether a very acceptable individual of our great American upper class--the first grade below the luxuriously rich.
-- Mrs. Hale, from her upper window, saw her come in.
-- You think you'll spring something and get the upper hand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, after dinner Friday we was laying around in the grass at the upper end of the ridge, and got out of tobacco.
-- He lives at the upper end of the town, she says.
-- It's a considerable ways to the upper end of the town.
-- She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come.
-- I crawfished as fast as I could about two yards, but the boat slanted so that I couldn't make very good time; so to keep from getting run over and catched I crawled into a stateroom on the upper side.
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