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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That should let us know before evening whether Barrymore is at his post in Devonshire or not.'
-- 'Because it is your post of duty.
-- The moment you arrive you will send a wire to Sir Henry Baskerville, in my name, to say that if he finds the pocket-book which I have dropped he is to send it by registered post to Baker Street.'
-- To this post a figure was tied, so swathed and muf-fled in the sheets which had been used to secure it that one could not for the moment tell whether it was that of a man or a woman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he had re-covered, however, he threw up his situation in the public company under General Epanchin's direction, for some un-known reason, and the post was given to another.
-- I said, 'there's nothing to see; it's quite a clear case you've lost your post and have come up to make ex-planations and get another, if you can!'
-- He was proud, and flew into a passion; there was a change of lo-cal government which acted in favour of his opponents; his position was undermined, complaints were made against him; he lost his post and came up to Petersburg with his last remaining money, in order to appeal to higher authori-ties.
-- Napoleon remembered me; I was taken away without explanation; the dead page's uniform was tried on me, and when I was taken before the emperor, dressed in it, he nodded his head to me, and I was told that I was ap-pointed to the vacant post of page.
-- Long since holding, as she did, the post of 'confidential adviser to mamma,' she was now perpetu-ally called in council, and asked her opinion, and especially her assistance, in order to recollect 'how on earth all this happened?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when a goat-herd from some high post watches a storm drive over the deep before the west wind black as pitch is the offing and a mighty whirlwind draws towards him, so that he is afraid and drives his flock into a cave even thus did the ranks of stalwart youths move in a dark mass to battle under the Ajaxes, horrid with shield and spear.
-- Presently he came down from his post on the mountain top, and as he strode swiftly onwards the high hills and the forest quaked beneath the tread of his immortal feet.
-- Therefore, my dear son, mind well what you are about, for if you can be first to round the post there is no chance of any one giving you the go-by later, not even though you had Adrestus's horse Arion behind you a horse which is of divine race or those of Laomedon, which are the noblest in this country.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hurried out with my three books of notes, my cheque-book the tramp has them now and directed them from the nearest Post Office to a house of call for letters and parcels in Great Portland Street.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night he slid down from the post and slipped in between the elephants and threw up the loose end of a rope, which had dropped, to a driver who was trying to get a purchase on the leg of a kicking young calf (calves always give more trouble than full-grown animals).
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- Know you the distance to a post of the crown called William Henry?'
-- A steady, though deliberate return was made from the rifle of Chingachgook, who had maintained his post throughout the fray with unmoved resolution.
-- 'I proved myself a sluggard on my post during the past night,' said Heyward, 'and have less need of repose than you, who did more credit to the character of a soldier.
-- The scout resumed his post in ad-vance, though his steps, after he had thrown a safe distance between himself and his enemies, were more deliberate than in their previous march, in consequence of his utter ignorance of the localities of the surrounding woods.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall post this letter on my arrival.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A week after, in the recess between the Chimneys and the cliff, a dockyard was prepared, and a keel five-and-thirty feet long, furnished with a stern- post at the stern and a stem at the bows, lay along the sand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller complied, and looking about him with a propitiatory smile, observed that last week was a fine week for the ducks, and this week was a fine week for the dust; he also observed that whilst standing by the post at the street-corner, he had observed a pig with a straw in his mouth issuing out of the tobacco-shop, from which appearance he augured that another fine week for the ducks was approaching, and that rain would certainly ensue.
-- Mr Quilp, either because frightening anybody afforded him a constitutional delight, or because it was pleasant to contemplate the death of Mrs Quilp number one, and the elevation of Mrs Quilp number two to her post and title, or because he was determined from purposes of his own to be agreeable and good-humoured at that particular time, only laughed and feigned to take no heed of her alarm.
-- CHAPTER 18The Jolly Sandboys was a small road-side inn of pretty ancient date, with a sign, representing three Sandboys increasing their jollity with as many jugs of ale and bags of gold, creaking and swinging on its post on the opposite side of the road.
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