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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lot fell upon the sailor; but he was the stron-gest of us and would not abide by it, and attacked Helmar with his hands.
-- I crawled along the boat to them, intending to help Helmar by grasping the sailor's leg; but the sailor stumbled with the swaying of the boat, and the two fell upon the gun-wale and rolled overboard together.
-- In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
-- Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera's silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
-- 'And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan's hide upon the Council Rock.
-- So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
-- They will not throw themselves upon my back in their hundreds, but ' 'I know it,' said Bagheera.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he repassed the females, he paused a moment to gaze upon their beau-ty, answering to the smile and nod of Alice with a look of open pleasure.
-- Each moment, however, pressed upon him a conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered his invalu-able trust to be involved through his own confidence.
-- This deed of apparent cruelty, but of real ne-cessity, fell upon the spirits of the travelers like a terrific warning of the peril in which they stood, heightened as it was by the calm though steady resolution of the actors in the scene.
-- It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impres-sion of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.
-- You have driven their tribes from the seashore, and would now believe what their enemies say, that you may sleep at night upon an easy pillow.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
-- He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon com-ets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
-- He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance, rather than the style in which he lived.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland's work except in so far as it touches upon his character.
-- It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief.
-- I have read this work with a good deal of amusement, and upon this I congratulate myself, since it is colourless and dull.
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
-- She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold.
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