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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might, perhaps, reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours, in Europe, where the distances were relatively moderate; but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the delight of Clif Clawson, the class jester, who worked at the next table, Ira chucked Martin in the ribs, patted him, very painfully, upon the head, and amiably resumed work, while Martin danced with irritation.
-- He looked like a distended hot-water bottle; he was magnificently imbecile; he believed everything, he knew nothing, he could memorize nothing; and anxiously he forgave the men who got through the vacant hours by playing jokes upon him.
-- He laughed at it, he remembered with professional scorn how foolish were the lay visitors to the laboratory, who believed that sanguinary microbes would leap upon them from the mysterious centrifuge, from the benches, from the air itself.
-- These notes he reproduced on the blackboard, in his fastidious script, murmuring, "Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but pondering upon it.
-- Clif was sitting on the small of his back, shoeless feet upon the study table, reading a Sherlock Holmes story which rested on the powerful volume of Osler's Medicine which he considered himself to be reading.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly the troops beat a tattoo, we were unbound, brought back upon the scaffold, and informed that his Majesty had spared us our lives.'
-- He was in terrible poverty, yet he took upon himself the payment of his brother's debts.
-- He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
-- The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
-- Now, a month later, he had begun to look upon them differently, and, in spite of the monologues in which he jeered at his own impotence and indecision, he had involuntarily come to regard this 'hid-eous' dream as an exploit to be attempted, although he still 10 Crime and Punishmentdid not realise this himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that shefelt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand;but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sittingwith the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on oneknee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
-- As the elms bent to one another, like giants who werewhispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell intoa violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their lateconfidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, someweather-beaten ragged old rooks'-nests burdening their higherbranches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
-- mused Miss Betsey, with her frown still bent upon the fire.
-- as she sat with her feet upon the fender.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was very lucky, for I would not have had poor James think himself slighted upon any account; and I am sure she will make a very good ser-vant: she is a civil, pretty-spoken girl; I have a great opinion of her.
-- When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed, 'It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us.
-- 'And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer for, depend upon it a lucky guess is never merely luck.
-- Depend upon it, a man of six or seven-and-twenty can take care of himself.'
-- Now, upon his father's marriage, it was very generally proposed, as a most proper attention, that the visit should take place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
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