upon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…上； 在…旁[=on，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- No Sons and Loverswind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
-- Once upon a time of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
-- It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheez-ing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
-- the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill.
-- As to the latter, when every posting-house and ale-house could produce somebody in 'the Captain's' pay, ranging from the landlord to the low-est stable non-descript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards.
-- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscru-tables inside.
-- Tellson's Bank had a run upon it in the mail.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattress- es.
-- Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night.
-- At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was ex-actly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.
-- 'I don't understand your Bornholmish dialect,' said he at last, angrily, and turning his back upon them.
-- Oh!oh!I am certainly very ill.' He now hit upon a half-open door, through a chink of which a faint light shone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was her solitary refuge from the household cares which crowded upon her directly she went out from it.
-- One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked upon as a good match.
-- As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
-- But here it seemed to Levin that just as they were close upon the real point of the matter, they were again retreating, and he made up his mind to put a question to the professor.
-- The professor, in annoyance, and, as it were, mental suffering at the interruption, looked round at the strange inquirer, more like a bargeman than a philosopher, and turned his eyes upon Sergey Ivanovitch, as though to ask: What's one to say to him?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He suddenly observed, hung over the clock, a card which, upon inspection, proved to be a programme of the daily routine of the house.
-- He repaired at once to the dining-room, the nine windows of which open upon a tasteful garden, where the trees were already gilded with an autumn colouring; and took his place at the habitual table, the cover of which had already been laid for him.
-- "All right," said Mr. Fogg; and, turning to the others, he continued: "I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring's which I will willingly risk upon it."
-- "But, in order not to exceed it, you must jump mathematically from the trains upon the steamers, and from the steamers upon the trains again."
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