I looked through the hole again and saw that they were on the top step.

我又从小洞往外看，见他们已经上到了最高一层的台阶。

Stationed on the top steps, one of the seamen undid the bolts of the hatch.

一个水手站在最上面一级台阶上，他正在把嵌板上的螺丝拧开。

Feebly she made her way onto the front porch and sank down on the top step.

她十分吃力地摸到前边走廊里，在顶上一级台阶颓然坐下。

Summer circled the well, sniffing. He paused by the top step and looked back at Bran. He wants to go.

夏天绕着井转圈，嗅来嗅去，然后停在第一格阶梯上，回头望向布兰。他也想去。

Before entering the house, Holmes inspected the top steps, which had been washed down with water.

在进入房子之前，福尔摩斯检查了顶部的台阶，这些台阶已经被水冲洗过。

Jenny was sitting on the top step. I was too tired to cry, too glad to speak.

珍妮坐在最上面的台阶上。我累得哭不出来，高兴得说不出话来。

Melanie dragged herself to the top step again and started down, holding onto the banisters, her pale lower lip caught between her teeth.

这时媚兰又挣扎着来到楼梯顶上，扶着栏杆，紧紧咬住灰白的下嘴唇，一步步走下楼来。

" They nearly saw me coming back in just now, " Harry said, " I landed badly on the top step, and the Cloak slipped."

“刚刚他们差点看到我进来，”哈利说。“我在最高一级阶梯糟糕地着陆，斗篷滑了一下。”

Evidently he had forgotten the contretemps, or pretended to have forgotten it, for he settled himself on the top step at her feet without mention of their late difference.

瑞德显然已忘记了那桩尴尬事，或者是装做忘记了，你看他在顶上一级台阶上她的脚边坐下来，绝口不提他俩之间过去的争论。

The two girls looked an invitation to join them, but he went onto the front porch and, seating himself on the top step, dropped his head on his cupped palm.

媚兰和思嘉都示意让他坐在身边，可是他径直向前廊走去，在那儿的台阶上坐下，双手捧着头一声不响。

The route, starting from the top steps of the garden, reads almost as a how-to manual, with precise directions on where to walk, pause and what to admire along the way.

这条从花园最上面的台阶开始的路线，读起来几乎是一本操作手册，上面还有明确的指示，告诉你该走到哪里，哪里该停一下，还有该欣赏什么。

I sat down on the damp cold top step and shook the sand out of my shoes and waited for my pulse to come down into the low hundreds.

我坐在潮湿寒冷的台阶上，抖掉鞋子里的沙子，等待我的脉搏降到百下。

Jo skipped up, and sitting on the top step, affected to be searching for her book, but was really wondering how best to introduce the dangerous object of her visit.

乔跳了上去，坐在最上面的台阶上，假装在找她的书，但真的很想知道如何最好地介绍她来访的危险对象。

Then he took off his covert-coat and his blazer, spread them neatly on the top step—knelt on them—turned up his shirt cuffs—and went to work with brace-and-bit near the key-hole.

然后他脱下便衣和西装外套，把它们整齐地铺在最上面的台阶上——跪在上面——把衬衫袖口卷起来——然后在钥匙孔附近带着牙套和咬合器开始工作。

McKeown, who made history at the Fukuoka world championships by winning three different distances in the same swimming event, reached the top step of the podium after the finals of the 50,100, and 200 meters backstroke.

麦基翁在福冈世锦赛上创造了在同一游泳项目中赢得三个不同距离冠军的历史，她在 50 米、100 米和 200 米仰泳决赛后登上了最高领奖台。