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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
-- This may be said to be a defect in an individual if he depends for his valuation more upon his appearance than upon his capacity to wear well, which Oak did not.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will read the story of Father Goriot's secret woes, and, dining thereafter with an unspoiled appetite, will lay the blame of your insensibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances.
-- The front of the lodging-house is at right angles to the road, and looks out upon a little garden, so that you see the side of the house in section, as it were, from the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve.
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
-- Vauquer's cat appears, announcing the near approach of his mistress, and jumps upon the sideboards to sniff at the milk in the bowls, each protected by a plate, while he purrs his morning greeting to the world.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
-- In the morning, however, as soon as it was light, I went upon deck and found all the sailors busy on one side of the vessel, apparently talking to someone in the sea.
-- Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on board.
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- Once, however, the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentleadmonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
-- Mammyfelt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery wasenough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.
-- Thewhite children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankeepoliticians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of theneighborhood, fearful of confessing debts of honor upon the carpets of their fathers, found him a friend in need.
-- Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her andclasping her hands upon it Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on theopposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less fromcontact with the hard floor.
-- Despite her heartache and the pain of unshed tears, a deep sense of quiet and peace fell upon Scarlett as it alwaysdid at this hour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
-- As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
-- To-night, Joe several times invited me, by the display of his fast diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread and butter on the other.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, 'Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.'
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
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