post是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 贴出； 公告； 投寄n. (支) 柱； 邮政， 邮寄； 职位，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were carpenters lifting a post into a vertical position within the parapet.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning Rastignac went out to post his letters.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time I have thought that each post would bring this line, and my persuasions have restrained my uncle from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt.
-- Beyond Cologne we descended to the plains of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way, for the wind was contrary and the stream of the river was too gen-tle to aid us.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A match flared, he leanedback against a post and, clasping his hands about his knees, smoked a while in silence.
-- If she did not quiet herself she would certainly faint As she stoodclutching a lamp post for support, she saw an officer on horseback come charging up the street from Five Points and,on an impulse, she ran out into the street and waved at him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village--a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
-- I received this letter by the post on Monday morning, and therefore its appointment was for next day.
-- Chapter XXXAfter well considering the matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick's being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's.
-- "Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip," said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, "because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man."
-- It seemed quite to put him into spirits to find that this particular post was not exceptionally held by the right sort of man, and he listened in a satisfied manner while I told him what knowledge I had of Orlick.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won't expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says "that's a Post," and when he sees a Pump, says "that's a Pump," and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick.
-- Her own private sitting-room was a story higher, at the window of which post of observation she was ready, every morning, to greet Mr. Bounderby, as he came across the road, with the sympathizing recognition appropriate to a Victim.
-- 'I have written to Stephen by the post that went out this afternoon, as I have written to him once before sin' he went away,' said Rachael; 'and he will be here, at furthest, in two days.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next day, at five o'clock in the morning, the post chaise was at the door.
-- Hans, with a perfectly calm and indifferent air, took his usual post at the head of the adventurous little band.
-- Hans took up his post in front as usual.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.
-- It was supposed that no persuasion could be invented which would induce Mrs Tickit to abandon her post at the blind, however long their absence, or to dispense with the attendance of Dr Buchan; the lucubrations of which learned practitioner, Mr Meagles implicitly believed she had never yet consulted to the extent of one word in her life.
-- Pursuing his inquiries, Clennam found that the Gowan family were a very distant ramification of the Barnacles; and that the paternal Gowan, originally attached to a legation abroad, had been pensioned off as a Commissioner of nothing particular somewhere or other, and had died at his post with his drawn salary in his hand, nobly defending it to the last extremity.
-- Mrs Chivery had desired her husband to take notice that if, on the one hand, their John had means and a post of trust, on the other hand, Miss Dorrit had family; and that her (Mrs Chivery's) sentiment was, that two halves made a whole.
-- It is probable that both these representations were of ex post facto origin; the young gentleman (whose expressive name was Sparkler) being monomaniacal in offering marriage to all manner of undesirable young ladies, and in remarking of every successive young lady to whom he tendered a matrimonial proposal that she was 'a doosed fine gal well educated too with no biggodd nonsense about her.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and carica-tures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
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