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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The CATAPEZ could not make him out, but shrugged his shoulders and resumed his post at the head of the party.
-- An inexperienced eye might have mistaken them for fireflies, which shine at night in many parts of the Pampas; but Thalcave was not deceived; he knew the enemies he had to deal with, and lost no time in loading his carbine and taking up his post in front of the fence.
-- Paganel took the post of leader, and his wonderful instinct shone out anew in this difficult mountain journey.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The P. O. was a capital little institution, and flour-ished wonderfully, for nearly as many queer things passed through it as through the real post office.
-- How they laughed when the secret came out, never dream-ing how many love letters that little post office would hold in the years to come.
-- 'Two letters for Doctor Jo, a book, and a funny old hat, which covered the whole post office and stuck outside,' said Beth, laughing as she went into the study where Jo sat writ-ing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well; when all the wedding guests were assembled at the bride's bamboo cottage, this Captain marches in, and being assigned the post of honor, placed himself over against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father.
-- It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above.
-- Not very far distant Flask's boat was also lying breathlessly still; its commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead, a stout sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the level of the stern platform.
-- Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain Colnett, a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled "A Voyage round Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a second or two, Oliver glanced up the street, and down the street, and over the way: impressed with the belief that the unknown, who had addressed him through the key -hole, had walked a few paces off, to warm himself; for nobody did he see but a big charity -boy, sitting on a post in front of the house, eating a slice of bread and butter: which he cut into wedges, the size of his mouth, with a clasp-knife, and then consumed with great dexterity.
-- 'I shall not be at home again, perhaps for some time; I wish you would write to me--say once a fort-night: every alternate Monday: to the General Post Office in London.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know I always speak my mind, and I cannot bear the idea of two young women travelling post by themselves.
-- Chapter 48 he whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr. Bennet Tthe next morning, but the post came in without bring- ing a single line from him.
-- Every day at Longbourn was now a day of anxiety; but the most anxious part of each was when the post was ex-pected.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the sides of this square post I cut every day a notch with my knife, and every seventh notch was as long again as the rest, and every first day of the month as long again as that long one; and thus I kept my calendar, or weekly, monthly, and yearly reckoning of time.
-- However, I travelled along the shore of the sea towards the east, I suppose about twelve miles, and then setting up a great pole upon the shore for a mark, I concluded I would go home again, and that the next journey I took should be on the other side of the island east from my dwelling, and so round till I came to my post again.
-- It was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth day, I think, as well as my poor wood-en calendar would reckon, for I marked all upon the post still; I say, it was on the sixteenth of May that it blew a very great storm of wind all day, with a great deal of lightning and thunder, and; a very foul night it was after it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He insisted, moreover, on conveying all their letters to and from the post for them, and would not be denied the satisfaction of sending them his newspaper every day.
-- To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.
-- "Not in the stage, I assure you," replied Miss Steele, with quick exultation; "we came post all the way, and had a very smart beau to attend us.
-- The next morning brought Elinor a letter by the two-penny post from Lucy herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held his favourite post for an hour or more, then arose and began to walk about restlessly.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Said we'd got to post Jim first.
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