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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a lec-turer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain芒聙娄.
-- The most awful recollection of the previous day was the way he had shown himself 'base and mean,' not only because he had been drunk, but because he had taken advantage of the young girl's position to abuse her fianc脙漏 in his stupid jealousy, knowing nothing of their mutual relations and ob-ligations and next to nothing of the man himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And when you make use of your position of favouritism here, sir,'pursued Mr. Mell, with his lip trembling very much, 'to insult agentleman-' 'A what?- where is he?'
-- 'I meant, Mr. Creakle,' he returned in a low voice, 'as I said; that nopupil had a right to avail himself of his position of favouritism todegrade me.'
-- 'You know what my position is,and always has been here.'
-- 'I apprehend, if you come to that,' saidMr. Creakle, with his veins swelling again bigger than ever, 'thatyou've been in a wrong position altogether, and mis- took this fora charity school.
-- This position I continued to occupyduring the whole interview, and from it I now saw Mr. and MissMurdstone enter the room.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This venture, unaided and alone, into the paths of farming as master and not as man, with an advance of sheep not yet paid for, was a critical juncture with Gabriel Oak, and he recognised his position clearly.
-- Her companion was apparently young and graceful; he could form no decided opinion upon her looks, her position being almost beneath his eye, so that he saw her in a bird's-eye view, as Milton's Satan first saw Paradise.
-- Having for some time known the want of a satisfactory form to fill an increasing void within him, his position moreover affording the widest scope for his fancy, he painted her a beauty.
-- Even its position terrestrially is one of the elements of a new interest, and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there Oak went again into the plantation.
-- The rapidity of her glide into this position was that of a kingfisher its noiselessness that of a hawk.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
-- They were in something the same position as an elderly couple who have nothing left to say to each other.
-- This was the position of affairs at the Maison Vauquer at the end of November 1819.
-- His position was not unlike that of some visitor permitted as a favor to inspect a private collection of curiosities, when by inadvertence he comes into collision with a glass case full of sculptured figures, and three or four heads, imperfectly secured, fall at the shock.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara.
-- "Bring him in," she said shortly, embarrassed at her attire, infuriated at Gerald for putting her in a position wherethis man could laugh at her.
-- For amoment, stiffened by the cramped position in which she had slept, she could not remember where she was.
-- She popped up to a sitting position and looked hastily all around.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, he held me by the arms, in an upright position on the top of the stone, and went on in these fearful terms:--"You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
-- In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, into which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped.
-- Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry, brown, corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut-shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers, supported this position by saying, "No, indeed, my dear.
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