situation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 形势， 处境， 状况； 位置， 场所； 职位， 职务，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly.
-- When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As an emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun.
-- How much of the incompleteness of his situation was referable to her father, through the pain-ful anxiety to avoid reviving old associations of France in his mind, he did not discuss with himself.
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：
-- It was the shoes that caused the metamorphosis by means of which, unknown to himself, he took upon him the thoughts and feelings of the officer; but, as we have just seen, he felt himself in his new situation much less contented, and now preferred the very thing which but some minutes before he had rejected.
-- Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen- maid, and the coachman had given warning.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the situation between Fix and Passepartout.
-- Phileas Fogg did not betray the least disappointment; but the situation was a grave one.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this may startle you--oh, you had a lot of crank notions when you were in school, but you aren't the only one that does some thinking for himself!--sometimes I believe it'd be better for the general health situation if there weren't any public health departments at all, because they get a lot of people into the habit of going to free clinics instead of to private physicians, and cut down the earnings of the doctors and reduce their number, so there are less of us to keep a watchful eye on sickness.
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：
-- The recollection of his re-cent success in getting the situation seemed to revive him, and was positively reflected in a sort of radiance on his face.
-- What made it all so difficult was that Dounia received a hundred roubles in advance when she took the place as governess in their family, on condition of part of her salary being deducted every month, and so it was im-possible to throw up the situation without repaying the debt.
-- You can imagine all she went through!To leave her situation at once was impos-sible not only on account of the money debt, but also to spare the feelings of Marfa Petrovna, whose suspicions would have been aroused: and then Dounia would have been the cause of a rupture in the family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therewould probably be an interval, he explained, in which he shouldcontent himself with the upper part of a house, over some 392respectable place of business- say in Piccadilly,- which would be acheerful situation for Mrs. Micawber; and where, by throwing outa bow window, or carrying up the roof another story, or makingsome little alteration of that sort, they might live, comfortably andreputably, for a few years.
-- Now, the churchwhich gives its name to the lane, stood in a less free situation atthat time; there being no open space before it, and the lane windingdown to the Strand.
-- At present we knownothing of them, and are not in a situation to judge how muchreality there may be in them.
-- Years have passed since he knew from me, what his situation herewas.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the pow-4 Emmaer of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvan-tages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.
-- Some scruples and some reluctance the widower-father may be supposed to have felt; but as they were overcome by other considerations, the child was given up to the care and the wealth of the Churchills, and he had only his own comfort to seek, and his own situation to im-prove as he could.
-- She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her compan-ionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little dif-ficulties and privations.
-- Her situation was altogether the subject of hours of grati-tude to Mrs. Weston, and of moments only of regret; and 20 Emmaher satisfaction -her more than satisfaction her cheerful enjoyment, was so just and so apparent, that Emma, well as she knew her father, was sometimes taken by surprize at his being still able to pity 'poor Miss Taylor,' when they left her at Randalls in the centre of every domestic comfort, or saw her go away in the evening attended by her pleasant hus-band to a carriage of her own.
-- It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking; highly becoming her own situation in life, her leisure, and powers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- Among these, carters and waggoners were distinguished by having a piece of whip-cord twisted round their hats; thatchers wore a fragment of woven straw; shepherds held their sheep-crooks in their hands; and thus the situation required was known to the hirers at a glance.
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