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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, but unfortunately there are whole lines wanting," said the Major, "and we have neither the name of the ship nor the place where she was shipwrecked."
-- With the latitude alone, I would engage to go right to the place where the wreck happened."
-- "My dear girl, we deserve no thanks; anyone in our place would have done the same.
-- "Quite so," said the captain, "and yet, your Lordship, I must confess that Miss Grant is more in her place on the poop than reefing a topsail.
-- His geographical works, his papers on modern discoveries, inserted in the reports of the Society, and his world-wide correspondence, gave him a most distinguished place among the LITERATI of France.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Would it not be well in the first place to get rid of this Barrymore couple?'
-- 'I've been over a good part of the world since I left it, Dr. Watson,' said he; 'but I have never seen a place to compare with it.'
-- 'It's no wonder my uncle felt as if trouble were coming on him in such a place as this,' said he.
-- But the dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom.
-- It is ask-ing much of a wealthy man to come down and bury himself in a place of this kind, but I need not tell you that it means a very great deal to the country-side.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
-- 'Oh well, look here, if I have some time to wait, would you mind telling me, is there any place about where I could have a smoke?
-- 'Four years!and I was in the same place nearly all the time, in one village.'
-- Oh no!hardly at all, and now they say so much is changed in the place that even those who did know it well are obliged to relearn what they knew.
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.
-- When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers.
-- The others took their several stations, each by his horses and the place where his arms were lying, while Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, put on his goodly armour.
-- They passed through the spreading host of the Achaeans and went on till they came to the place where Menelaus had been wounded and was lying with the chieftains gathered in a circle round him.
-- When they were got together in one place shield clashed with shield and spear with spear in the rage of battle.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The parlour door slammed, and the place was silent again.
-- The place was empty.
-- and so forth, and a young fellow, a stranger in the place whose name did not come to light, rushed in at once, caught something, missed his hold, and fell over the constable's prostrate body.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What an awful world to live in!Where shall we find a safe place for gentlemen like ourselves?"
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