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：
-- Aided by Duncan and the younger Mohican, the two latter descended the precipitous sides of that hill which they had so lately ascended under so very different auspices, and whose summit had so nearly proved the scene of their massacre.
-- At length he appeared sat-isfied; and having cast his eyes impatiently upward toward the summit of the eastern mountain, as if anticipating the approach of the morning, he was in the act of turning on his footsteps, when a light sound on the nearest angle of the bastion caught his ear, and induced him to remain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour, turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom.
-- Lastly, beyond and above the plateau, in a northwesterly direction and at a distance of at least seven miles, glittered a white summit which reflected the sun's rays.
-- Towards the summit fluttered myriads of sea-fowl, and especially those of the web-footed species with long, flat, pointed beaks a clamorous tribe, bold in the presence of man, who probably for the first time thus invaded their domains.
-- Herbert and the sailor began their ascent; thanks to the vigor of their muscles they reached the summit in a few minutes; and proceeded to the point above the mouth of the river.
-- It would be easy to kill a few of the pigeons which were flying by hundreds about the summit of the plateau, either with sticks or stones.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
-- "At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock, and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro, and making uncanny noises to each other, as the glare of the fire beat on them.
-- From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain, and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Often, as I still lay at the bottom and kept no more than an eye above the gunwale, I would see a big blue summit heaving close above me; yet the coracle would but bounce a little, dance as if on springs, and subside on the other side into the trough as lightly as a bird.
-- I was on the summit of one swell when the schooner came stooping over the next.
-- I looked up; a pale glimmer of moonbeams had alighted on the summit of the Spy-glass, and soon after I saw something broad and silvery moving low down behind the trees, and knew the moon had risen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The white glimmer came in rays from the summit of a mountain about 800 feet high.
-- Its summit evidently passed the level of the ocean.
-- At the summit was a circular orifice, by which I had caught the slight gleam of light, evidently daylight.
-- From this place the sky could be clearly seen, and clouds, dissipated by the west wind, leaving behind them, even on the summit of the mountain, their misty remnants certain proof that they were only moderately high, for the volcano did not rise more than eight hundred feet above the level of the ocean.
-- We followed a narrow pathway running along the summit of the steep shore.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew he was following the track towards the summit of the slopes, where was the Marienh脙录tte, and the descent on the other side.
-- At last he came to the great shallow among the precipices and slopes, near the summit of the pass.
-- At the far end, the guides had driven iron stakes deep into the snow-wall, so that, by means of the great rope attached, they could haul themselves up the massive snow-front, out on to the jagged summit of the pass, naked to heaven, where the Marienh脙录tte hid among the naked rocks.
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