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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
-- 'My good fellow, this is a very serious business, and you may find yourself in a pretty bad position if you try to hide anything from me.
-- She had come from the di-rection in which the plume of smoke indicated the position of Merripit House, but the dip of the moor had hid her until she was quite close.
-- Lyons,' said I, as I rose from this long and incon-clusive interview, 'you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.
-- If your position is innocent, why did you in the first instance deny having written to Sir Charles upon that date?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
-- The gen-eral lived on the first floor or flat of the house, as modest alodging as his position permitted.
-- Besides this, it was clear that the Epanchins' position gained each year, with geometrical accuracy, both as to fi-nancial solidity and social weight; and, therefore, the longer the girls waited, the better was their chance of making a brilliant match.
-- The fact was, Totski was at that time a man of fifty years of age; his position was solid and respectable; his place in society had long been firmly fixed upon safe foundations; he loved himself, his personal comforts, and his position better than all the world, as every respectable gentleman should!
-- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insa-tiable contempt in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in soci-ety to keep up.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It could not have been more than an hour after I took up my position on the mattresses before I noticed the blinds of the windows being drawn, and customers being marched doorward.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HE reader will perhaps understand that at first every-Tthing was so strange about me, and my position was the outcome of such unexpected adventures, that I had no dis- cernment of the relative strangeness of this or that thing.
-- This is a kind of grafting in a new position of part of an animal upon itself.
-- His roving eye caught the position of my arm and he smiled askew.
-- HEN this was accomplished, and we had washed and Weaten, Montgomery and I went into my little room and seriously discussed our position for the first time.
-- As it was I lost the opportunity, and sank to the position of a mere leader among my fellows.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know that as soon as the guns are in position they'll do all the charging.
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：
-- While the regular and trained hire-lings of the king marched with haughtiness to the right of the line, the less pretending colonists took their humbler position on its left, with a docility that long practice had rendered easy.
-- Hawkeye spoke to him in Delaware, when the young chief took his position with singular caution and undisturbed coolness.
-- 'The Hurons, if they come, may not gain our position so easily as they think,' he slowly muttered; and propping his head back against the rock, he seemed to await the result in patience, though his gaze was unceasingly bent on the open avenue to their place of retreat.
-- He described the cataract of Glenn's; the impregnable position of its rocky island, with its caverns and its numerous rapids and whirl-pools; he named the name of 'La Longue Carabine,' and paused until the forest beneath them had sent up the last echo of a loud and long yell, with which the hated appella-tion was received.
-- 'You see we have reached their settlement or encamp-ment,' whispered the young man; 'and here is one of the savages himself, in a very embarrassing position for our further movements.'
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 find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.
-- The women were too nice to be well dressed, and too sure of their position to be amusing.
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