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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary involuntarily gave a start, but the captain said:"Oh, don't be afraid, Miss Mary; he is all right, take my word for it; I'll have a capital sailor to present to Captain Grant before long, for we'll find the worthy captain, depend upon it."
-- I insist upon it; you understand; I insist upon it.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the Mmornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
-- I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
-- 'To James Mortim-er, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,' was engraved upon it, with the date '1884.'
-- 'There are certainly one or two indications upon the stick.
-- Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- This last fact could, of course, reflect nothing but credit upon the general; and yet, though unquestionably a saga-cious man, he had his own little weaknesses-very excusable ones, one of which was a dislike to any allusion to the above circumstance.
-- 'Oh, that's not in my province!I believe she receives at any time; it depends upon the visitors.
-- 'Of course not of course not! bah!The criminal was a fine intelligent fearless man; Le Gros was his name; and I may tell you believe it or not, as you like that when that man stepped upon the scaffold he CRIED, he did indeed, he was as white as a bit of paper.
-- You may place a soldier before a cannon's mouth in battle, and fire upon him and he will still hope.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- BOOK I ing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that Sbrought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
-- It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chry-ses his priest.
-- If I have ever decked your temple with gar-lands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans.'
-- He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.
-- For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with that much introduction, that and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn.
-- She noticed that the melting snow that still sprinkled his shoulders dripped upon her carpet.
-- And him a new guest and wanting to stay!Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.
-- She put on some more coal, unfolded the clothes-horse, and extended the traveller's coat upon this.
-- "Thanks," he said concisely, as she put them down, and turned his shoulder upon her and stared out of the window again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physi-cal and mental stress.
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
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