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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb's boy.
-- Now, concerning the influence of my position on others, I was in no such difficulty, and so I perceived--though dimly enough perhaps--that it was not beneficial to anybody, and, above all, that it was not beneficial to Herbert.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too: for in this magnet, the forces always act in lines par-allel to its direction.
-- To explain the manner of its progress, let A B represent a line drawn across the dominions of Balnibarbi, let the line c d represent the loadstone, of which let d be the repelling end, and c the at-tracting end, the island being over C: let the stone be placed in position c d, with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D. When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle, till its attracting end points towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E; where, if the stone be again turned upon its axle till it stands in the position E F, with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, 211the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turn-ing the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The proposal is like yourself, and if the position I shall assume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale ''Why, of course it is,' said Bounderby.
-- Nothing moved Mrs. Sparsit from that position any more.
-- Mrs. Sparsit complied, and assumed her old position at table.
-- Mr. Harthouse drew a long breath; and, if ever man found himself in the position of not knowing what to say, made the discovery beyond all question that he was so circumstanced.
-- 'Well!If it should unhappily appear,' he said, 'after due pains and duty on my part, that I am brought to a position so desolate as this banishment, I shall not become the lady's persecutor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No mineralogists had even found themselves placed in such a marvelous position to study nature in all her real and naked beauty.
-- In our peculiar position we were far above such reflections.
-- It was indeed a position to drive the sanest man to madness!
-- The ship and its inmates, Iceland, M. Fridriksson, and the great summit of Mount Sneffels!I said to myself that, if in my position I retained the most faint and shadowy outline of a hope, it would be a sure sign of approaching delirium.
-- From this elevated position his looks are cast around.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The money is yours, the position is yours, the decisions will lie with you.
-- It was sheer relaxation on his part, letting go all his manhood, and sinking back to a childish position that was really perverse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speaker, with a whimsical good humour upon him all the time, looked over the parapet-wall with the greatest disparagement of Marseilles; and taking up a determined position by putting his hands in his pockets and rattling his money at it, apostrophised it with a short laugh.
-- He fancied that although they had before them, every day, the means of comparison between her and one another and themselves, they regarded her as being in her necessary place; as holding a position towards them all which belonged to her, like her name or her age.
-- But what I mean when I say that people who put themselves in the same position are mostly used in the same way ''In England,' said Mr Meagles.
-- There was another pause, and he had altered his position in the room, when he spoke again more mildly:'I was going to tell you why it was.
-- Young Chivery, too; really almost with a delicate perception of one's position here.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connec-tion of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorri-gible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.
-- Fred Vaughn had returned, and put the question to which she had once decided to answer, 'Yes, thank you,' but now she said, 'No, thank you,' kindly but steadily, for when the time came, her courage failed her, and she found that something more than money and position was needed to satisfy the new longing that filled her heart so full of tender hopes and fears.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.
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