summit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 顶点, 高峰; 峰会(最高级会谈)，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 view from the summit was very extensive, stretching over an area equal to Spain.
-- They were now on the summit of the Nevadas of the Cordilleras, and could see over an area of forty miles.
-- Soon the principal island stood out from the rocky mass, at the summit of a triangle inclining toward the northeast.
-- The tribe stopped at an elevation of about 800 feet, on the summit of Maunganamu, where the burial place of Kara-Tete had been prepared.
-- CHAPTER XIII THE SACRED MOUNTAINTHE summit of the mountain was still a hundred feet above them.
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：
-- I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
-- But I had my own experience for a guide since it had shown me the man himself standing upon the summit of the Black Tor.
-- The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and gray shadow on the other.
-- Then, as the moon rose we climbed to the top of the rocks over which our poor friend had fallen, and from the summit we gazed out over the shadowy moor, half silver and half gloom.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Juno dart-ed down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was.
-- Nine days long did they bring in great heaps of wood, and on the morning of the tenth day with many tears they took brave Hector forth, laid his dead body upon the summit of the pile, and set the fire thereto.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember the barracks in Albany Street, and the horse soldiers coming out, and at last I found the summit of Primrose Hill.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the summit was gained, they found themselves on a level spot, but thinly covered with trees, under one of which Magua had thrown his dark form, as if willing and ready to seek that rest which was so much needed by the whole party.
-- The Narragansetts were suffered to browse on the branches of the trees and shrubs that were thinly scattered over the summit of the hill, while the remains of their provisions were spread under the shade of a beech, that stretched its horizontal limbs like a canopy above them.
-- The Delawares, who had believed their enemy dead, uttered their exclamation of surprise, and were fol-lowing with speed and clamor, like hounds in open view of the deer, when a shrill and peculiar cry from the scout instantly changed their purpose, and recalled them to the summit of the hill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, a light on the summit of the rocky staircase gleamed through the snow and mist.
-- Some of the earliest had even already resumed their journey; and, both on the level summit by the dark water near the convent, and on the downward way of yesterday's ascent, little moving figures of men and mules, reduced to miniatures by the immensity around, went with a clear tinkling of bells and a pleasant harmony of tongues.
-- Not a fortified town that they passed in all their journey was as strong, not a Cathedral summit was as high, as Mr Dorrit's castle.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into it through a little trap-hatch in the bottom.
-- If you stand on its summit and look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its sounding-board.
-- Then, hand-over-hand, down the other part, the Indian drops through the air, till dexterously he lands on the summit of the head.
-- At this instant, while Daggoo, on the summit of the head, was clearing the whip which had somehow got foul of the great cutting tackles a sharp cracking noise was heard; and to the unspeakable horror of all, one of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with a vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship reeled and shook as if smitten by an iceberg.
-- And if at such times you should think that you really perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are not merely condensed from its vapor; or how do you know that they are not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole fissure, which is countersunk into the summit of the whale's head?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They stood now, on the summit of a little hill, commanding the open fields in every direction for three or four miles.
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