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：
-- 'On my honor, no,' exclaimed Duncan, warmly; 'there would have been an abuse of a confided trust, had I taken advantage of my situation for such a purpose.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sequestered situation of this church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits.
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：
-- They talked of the political situation and of golf, of their children and the latest play, of the pictures at the Royal Academy, of the weather and their plans for the holidays.
-- They both took the situation so much as a matter of course that I felt it absurd to do otherwise.
-- It was a situation that must have appealed to Strickland's sardonic humour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frightful indeed was the situation of these unfortunate men.
-- The Governor of Richmond for a long time had been unable to communicate with General Lee, and he very much wished to make known to him the situation of the town, so as to hasten the march of the army to their relief.
-- The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.
-- For a few minutes he remained absorbed in thought; then again speaking, "My friends," said he, "our situation is, perhaps, deplorable; but, at any rate, it is very plain.
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Richard Swiveller's apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, and in addition to this convenience of situation had the advantage of being over a tobacconist's shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out upon the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff-box.
-- In this flight of fancy, Mr Swiveller was assisted by a deceptive piece of furniture, in reality a bedstead, but in semblance a bookcase, which occupied a prominent situation in his chamber and seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry.
-- 'And when the Mary Anne returned with you on board, instead of a letter to say what a contrite heart you had, and how happy you were in the situation that had been provided for you, I was amused exceedingly amused.
-- Do you want a good situation for your grand-daughter, master?
-- Mr Swiveller explained that his respectable friend had recently accepted a responsible situation in a locomotive gaming-house, and was at that time absent on a professional tour among the adventurous spirits of Great Britain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prosecutor made it a rule to view the situation from the eminence of his position, i. e., to penetrate into the profound psychological meaning of crime, and bare the ulcers of society.
-- Maslova's transfer to the division of the politicals bettered her situation in every respect.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of 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：
-- Neither did I, to be sure, he was so loose a talker; yet in this case I believe he was really right and that nobody had told the situation of the island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, our situation was no less terrible.
-- Half an hour had already passed without our situation being bettered, when the dense darkness suddenly gave way to extreme light.
-- I replied in good French that I did not know his language; but he seemed not to understand me, and my situation became more embarrassing.
-- "Sir," I replied, beginning to get angry in spite of my self, "you abuse your situation towards us; it is cruelty."
-- Many people would accept the situation forced upon us, if only to move amongst such wonders.
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