position是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 位置； 职位； 姿势， 姿态； 见解， 立场， 形势，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the hors-es; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
-- Be that as it may, a change in his position making him conscious of a bar of light across his face, he looked up; and when he saw the glass his face flushed, and his right hand pushed the herbs away.
-- That, his position and attitude were, on the whole, sublime.
-- You may also tell him, from me, that after 340 A tale of two citiesabandoning his worldly goods and position to this butch-erly mob, I wonder he is not at the head of them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The higher the position in which one finds oneself transplanted, the greater is the suffering.
-- 'I saw everything, and I shall tell all to you: but it is no pride on my part as a free man, and with the knowledge I have, not to speak of my position in life, my excellent cir-cumstances I certainly wish that you would say YOU* to me!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.
-- He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault.
-- But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry for his wife, his children, and himself.
-- But in spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.
-- It would have struck him as absurd if he had been told that he would not get a position with the salary he required, especially as he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing duties of the kind than any other man.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made himself known as a London detective, told his business at Bombay, and the position of affairs relative to the supposed robber, and nervously asked if a warrant had arrived from London.
-- The musicians took up a position inside, and were vigorously performing on their gongs, tam-tams, flutes, bones, tambourines, and immense drums.
-- He could not help starting, which so changed the position of his nose as to bring the "pyramid" pell-mell upon the stage.
-- From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.
-- Fix smiled at this remark; and, in order to be able to see without being jostled about, the party took up a position on the top of a flight of steps situated at the upper end of Montgomery Street.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was disconcerting to Martin that she should seem to think that she was a superior person quite as much as himself, but he was even more disconcerted when she bubbled: "At the same time, Martin, one does have to be practical, doesn't one!Think how much more money--no, I mean how much more social position and power for doing good a successful doctor has than one of these scientists that just putter, and don't know what's going on in the world.
-- No, he would be business-like!He applied to a Chicago teachers' agency, and received a stilted answer promising to look about and inquiring whether he would care to take the position of teacher of physics and chemistry in a suburban high school.
-- And we find that you're not to be trusted with a position of real responsibility.
-- Tubbs came in to wail, "If you had only published earlier, as I told you, Dr. Arrowsmith!You have really put me in a most embarrassing position before the Board of Trustees.
-- Inchcape Jones offered to Martin the position of Government bacteriologist, but he refused lest he be sidetracked.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
-- Then he seized the stone again and with one twist turned it back, so that it was in the same position again, though it stood a very little higher.
-- He moved his chair back from the table, made a little space between the table and his knees, and waited in a rath-er cramped position for the visitor to 'thread his way in.'
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