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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- Upon my arrival in New York several persons did me the honour of consulting me on the phenomenon in question.
-- I was well satisfied with my cabin, which was in the after part, opening upon the gunroom.
-- Now, what was Ned Land's opinion upon the question of the marine monster?
-- He even avoided the subject, which I one day thought it my duty to press upon him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee.
-- It was strange that she should have chosen to come back and test the full effect of this shapeless, barren ugliness upon herself.
-- She felt troubled, as if it rested upon her.
-- He resembled a deer, that throws one ear back upon the trail behind, and one ear forward, to know what is ahead.
-- Imagine it, two boys playing together then this comes upon them, for no reason whatever out of the air.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if any one attempted to assist him in counting his gold.
-- Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!A sad pity I must beware how I cause her to regret her choice.'
-- Saying this, he compelled us so to square our positions that we might receive from the far off fire a dull ray to show us the text of the lumber he thrust upon us.
-- Brethren, execute upon him the judgment written.
-- I removed the habit, and there shone forth beneath a grand plaid silk frock, white trousers, and burnished shoes; and, while her eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her, she dared hardly touch them lest they should fawn upon her splendid garments.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very strong.
-- Often I have heard the house shaking with "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum," all the neighbours joining in for dear life, with the fear of death upon them, and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark.
-- By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
-- In the meantime, the captain gradually brightened up at his own music, and at last flapped his hand upon the table before him in a way we all knew to mean silence.
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
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