place是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地方； 名次； 地位； 寓所v. 安排； 放置； 投(资)，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah,' answered he, 'let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity.
-- But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the royal throne.
-- 'Ah, you poor child,' answered the old woman, 'what a place for you to come to!This is a murderers' den.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle.
-- At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, having been polluted some years before 22 Gulliver's Travelsby an unnatural murder, was, according to the zeal of those people, looked upon as profane, and therefore had been applied to common use, and all the ornaments and furni-ture carried away.
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such con-fusion, that before I came to the place where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I came to land; the string, as I conjecture, break-ing by some accident, which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost at sea.
-- After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of 44 Gulliver's Travelsmy right ear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the eighteen denominations?
-- 'We travelled about the country, and had no fixed place to live in.
-- He took no place among those remarkable 'Hands,' who, piecing together their broken intervals of leisure through many years, had mastered difficult sciences, and acquired a knowledge of most unlikely things.
-- Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His mood soon changed, however, and a smile took the place of a frown.
-- This portion of the conversation took place in Latin, and I therefore understood all that had been said.
-- In this country there are no roads, paths are nearly unknown, and vegetation, poor as it was, slowly as it reached perfection, soon obliterated all traces of the few travelers who passed from place to place.
-- Shortly after we entered a place of communal jurisdiction called Ejulberg, and the clock of which would then have struck twelve, if any Icelandic church had been rich enough to possess so valuable and useful an article.
-- The fjord was in this place about half a mile in width.
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：
-- Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, be-gun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinc-tion.
-- It was as if the whole thing took place in a vacuum.
-- For the rest the place seemed run by mechani-cal anarchy.
-- It was only a place where she could get away from the rest.
-- Then he turned and came to her again as she sat in her old place by the fire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one of its chambers, so repulsive a place that even the obtrusive stare blinked at it, and left it to such refuse of reflected light as it could find for itself, were two men.
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