Surmount

(verb.) be on top of; 'The scarf surmounted the gown'.

校对:弗恩

• Not even the prospect of reward, far less any feelings of compassion alone, could surmount this apprehension. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The difficulties, that occur to us, in supposing a moral obligation to attend promises, we either surmount or elude. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They surmount a wall about ten or twelve feet high. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The efforts, which the mind makes to surmount the obstacle, excite the spirits and inliven the passion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But it was not in a lover's nature--it was not in Fred's, that the new anxiety raised about Mary's feeling should not surmount every other. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• His sense of right had surmounted and would continue to surmount anything that might be called antipathy. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The banner of her family hung there, still surmounted by its regal crown. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Each spire is surmounted by a statue six and a half feet high. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold--the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In the top was constructed a scientific laboratory surmounted by a lantern containing a powerful electric light. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The trunk is straight and naked, and surmounted by a crown of feather-like leaves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Upon the top of the bank was a low brick wall, surmounted by an iron railing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Yes, said Lydgate, a great leap of joy within him surmounting every other feeling; that would pay all my debts, and leave me a little on hand. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This new and original railway bridge proved a success, and convinced England that Robert had inherited his father’s genius for surmounting what seemed impossible natural difficulties. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

校对:莎娜