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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately for her boy, his best friends died; and he got then a situation as second clerk at a lawyer's in Casterbridge.
-- I would rather ask you to wait a few weeks till I can see my situation better.
-- To have brought all this about her ears was terrible; but after a while the situation was not without a fearful joy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our situation was some-what dangerous, especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog.
-- I passed an hour in this state of mind, when suddenly I reflected how fearful the combat which I momentarily ex-pected would be to my wife, and I earnestly entreated her to retire, resolving not to join her until I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy.
-- Melan-choly followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation and was then released from my prison.
-- 248 FrankensteinChapter 24 y present situation was one in which all voluntary Mthought was swallowed up and lost.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a situation whichinterested the neighbors and annoyed their mother, who had no liking for Scarlett.
-- Having never possessed the courage to get himself into such a situation before, Charles was at a loss as to how toact.
-- Even if the commissary troop had been more interesting, it would not have helped her situation any.
-- Levi, horrified, was quick to cover the situation and bawled: "Choose yo' padners fo' de Ferginny reel!"
-- Only most fools won't see it and take advantage of the situation created by the collapse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Orlick felt that the situation admitted of nothing less than coming on, and was on his defence straightway; so, without so much as pulling off their singed and burnt aprons, they went at one another, like two giants.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began with compliments on my liberty; said 'he might pre-tend to some merit in it;' but, however, added, 'that if it had not been for the present situation of things at court, per-haps I might not have obtained it so soon.
-- And thus, by changing the situation of the stone, as often as there is occasion, the island is made to rise and fall by turns in an oblique direction, and by those alternate risings and fallings (the obliquity being not con-siderable) is conveyed from one part of the dominions to the other.
-- For, if the town intended to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks, as it generally falls out in the larger cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent 214 Gulliver's Travelssuch a catastrophe; or if it abound in high spires, or pil-lars of stone, a sudden fall might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it consist, as I have said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by ap-proaching too near the fires from the houses below, as the backs, both of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tom Gradgrind, Mrs. Sparsit latterly found herself, by accident, in a situation to overhear a conversation out of doors between your daughter and your precious gentleman-friend, Mr. James Harthouse.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bed was hard, the shelter unsatisfactory, the situation painful--lying in the open air, five thousand feet above the level of the sea!
-- "Well," replied the Professor, "examining the situation from only one point of view, we are now distant three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."
-- The situation did not change in the least, though a discovery I suddenly made seemed to complicate it very much.
-- "Henry," said the Professor, "I do believe that the situation is to a certain extent desperate.
-- In an instant the full horror of my situation seized me.
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：
-- Till things developed over there, and Lloyd George came to save the situation over here.
-- He thought her comely, almost beautiful, in her shyness, and he took command of the situation himself at once.
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