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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All went right, and the groom lay snoring with his hand upon the golden saddle.
-- But when the son looked at the horse, he thought it a great pity to put the leathern sad-dle upon it.
-- But the people said 'No,' unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.
-- These, and a thousand other reformations, I firmly counted upon by your encouragement; as indeed they were plainly deduc-ible from the precepts delivered in my book.
-- Yet, so far have you been from answering my ex-pectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of de-grading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious oc-casion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
-- A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
-- But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.
-- Bitzer, after rapidly blinking at Thomas Gradgrind with both eyes at once, and so catching the light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antenn脙娄 of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead, and sat down again.
-- He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter, bore his opponent (he always fought All England) to the ropes, and fall upon him neatly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 25 THE WHISPERING GALLERY CHAPTER 26 A RAPID RECOVERY CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA CHAPTER 28 LAUNCHING THE RAFT CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT CHAPTER 31 THE SEA MONSTER CHAPTER 32 THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER 33 OUR ROUTE REVERSED CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT?
-- To bear with him means to obey; and scarcely had his heavy feet resounded within our joint domicile than he shouted for me to attend upon him.
-- "Harry--Harry--Harry--" I hastened to obey, but before I could reach his room, jumping three steps at a time, he was stamping his right foot upon the landing.
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- I was about to venture upon some misplaced joke on the subject, when a small scrap of parchment fell out of the leaves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Michaelis had seized upon Clifford as the central figure for a play; already he had sketched in the plot, and writ-ten the first act.
-- Connie attributed it to Mrs Bolton's influence upon him, just at the crisis in his life.
-- What man with a spark of honour would put this ghastly burden of life-responsibility upon a woman, and leave her there, in the void?
-- She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beauty.
-- The drizzle of rain drifted greyly past upon the dark-ness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since.
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