seat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 座位， 底座； 所在地， 场所v. 使坐下，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor can any son of mortal woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies, and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly.
-- Lying in strange folds, courses, and convolutions, to their apprehensions, it seems more in keeping with the idea of his general might to regard that mystic part of him as the seat of his intelligence.
-- For truly, the Right Whale's mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor; placed a seat for him; and officiously deposited his cocked hat and cane on the table before him.
-- 'You don't want any beer,' said Nancy, folding her arms, and retaining her seat very composedly.
-- But she had resumed her old seat in front of the fire, and sat, perfectly motionless before it.
-- The attendant did as she was told: shaking her head meanwhile, to intimate that the woman would not die so easily; having done so, she resumed her seat by the side of the other nurse, who had by this time returned.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of having been at St. James's Sir William was so completely awed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word; and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edge of her chair, not knowing which way to look.
-- The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which Mr. Col-lins had promised; and, as he had likewise foretold, he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing great-er.
-- cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat as she finished the letter, in eagerness to fol-low him, without losing a moment of the time so precious; but as she reached the door it was opened by a servant, and Mr. Darcy appeared.
-- It was a fortnight since Mrs. Bennet had been down-stairs; but on this happy day she again took her seat at the head of her table, and in spirits oppressively high.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- my castle, my country seat (which I called my bower), and my enclosure in the woods: nor did I look after this for any other use than an enclosure for my goats; for the aversion which nature gave me to these hell-ish wretches was such, that I was as fearful of seeing them as of seeing the devil himself.
-- I told him this was my castle and my residence, but that I had a seat in the country, as most princes have, whither I could retreat upon occasion, and I would show him that too another time; but at present our business was to consider how to recover the ship.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One thing, especially, I remember, because it served to identify the man still more: as soon as the ceremony was over, they were to go to Combe Magna, his seat in Somersetshire.
-- Jennings, with a very intelligent "Ah!poor dear," immediately gave her her salts; and Sir John felt so desperately enraged against the author of this nervous distress, that he instantly changed his seat to one close by Lucy Steele, and gave her, in a whisper, a brief account of the whole shocking affair.
-- Marianne had retreated as much as possible out of sight, to conceal her distress; and Margaret, understanding some part, but not the whole of the case, thought it incumbent on her to be dignified, and therefore took a seat as far from him as she could, and maintained a strict silence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaned forward to put his elbows upon the back of her seat and proceeded to make himself volubly agreeable.
-- If some seemingly vulnerable object appeared he was all attention-- to pass the compliments of the day, to lead the way to the parlor car, carrying her grip, or, failing that, to take a seat next her with the hope of being able to court her to her destination.
-- Then she found a seat by a table, and turned over some books, devoting a thought to them.
-- He took his seat beside her and thought a moment.
-- Ames had taken a seat beside Carrie, and accordingly he felt it his bounden duty to pay her some attention.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody.
-- After break-fast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he heard his Father's voice, he jumped up from his seat to open the door, but, as he did so, he staggered and fell headlong to the floor.
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