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 no longer wondered that Mrs. Strickland felt a certain embarrassment about him; he was scarcely a credit to a woman who wanted to make herself a position in the world of art and letters.
-- It made my position complicated, not to say ludicrous.
-- I might have spoken of the economic position of woman, of the contract, tacit and overt, which a man accepts by his marriage, and of much else; but I felt that there was only one point which really signified.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything depended on the position of the island, of its isolation in the Pacific, or of its proximity to archipelagoes.
-- I wish to hide nothing of our position from you " "And you are right, my dear Cyrus," replied the reporter, with animation.
-- As to the points of the compass, the engineer had roughly fixed them by the height and position of the sun, which placed Union Bay and Prospect Heights to the east.
-- But the next day, by taking the exact hour of the rising and setting of the sun, and by marking its position between this rising and setting, he reckoned to fix the north of the island exactly, for, in consequence of its situation in the Southern Hemisphere, the sun, at the precise moment of its culmination, passed in the north and not in the south, as, in its apparent movement, it seems to do, to those places situated in the Northern Hemisphere.
-- This evening by the height of the pole, the next day by the passing of the sun at the meridian, he would obtain the position of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His fair enemies tossed their heads slightly as they sought their respective bonnets and shawls, but left all verbal contention to Mrs Jiniwin, who finding herself in the position of champion, made a faint struggle to sustain the character.
-- Mr Quilp, without changing his position further than to turn over a little more on his side and rest his chin on his hand, proceeded to make himself acquainted with its contents.
-- And in this position the old man, happening in course of time to look that way, at length chanced to see him: to his unbounded astonishment.
-- In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience, and leaning against the wall with the manner of a person who had a long time to wait, and being well used to it was quite resigned, scarcely changed his attitude for the hour together.
-- Having looked out, from among the old furniture, the handsomest and most commodious chair he could possibly find (which he reserved for his own use) and an especially hideous and uncomfortable one (which he considerately appropriated to the accommodation of his friend) he caused them to be carried into this room, and took up his position in great state.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her position was reflected even in her name, for she was not called by the gentle Katinka, nor yet by the disdainful Katka, but Katiousha, which stands sentimentally between the two.
-- She then obtained employment as servant in the house of the commissary of rural police, but was obliged to give up the position at the end of the third month, for the commissary, a fifty-year old man, pursued her with his attentions, and when, on one occasion, he became too persistent, she flared up, called him an old fool, and threw him to the ground.
-- She was now so far advanced on the road to maternity that to look for a position was out of the question.
-- She offered Maslova work as a washerwoman, but seeing what a hard life the washerwomen at her aunt's establishment were leading, she searched through the intelligence offices for a position as servant.
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paused when he had got into a sitting position on the edge.
-- I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the man with the lantern some paces in front.
-- So we proceeded without pausing to take breath, till the whole cargo was bestowed, when the two servants took up their position in the block house, and I, with all my power, sculled back to the Hispaniola.
-- Our position was utterly reversed.
-- The other, a mere blur of light upon the darkness, indicated the position of the anchored ship.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
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