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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Iping's the place he started at," said the mariner.
-- "I remember walking back to the empty house, through the place that had once been a village and was now patched and tinkered by the jerry builders into the ugly likeness of a town.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, the number was three.
-- 'Your place is forward.'
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
-- His keys, and the elaborate locking-up of the place even while it was still under his eye, struck me as peculiar.
-- The place was a pleasant one.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him care-fully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
-- He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun.
-- Many of the wolves that looked thee over when thou wast brought to the Coun-cil first are old too, and the young wolves believe, as Shere Khan has taught them, that a man-cub has no place with the Pack.
-- They all knew where that place was, but few of the Jungle People ever went there, because what they called the Cold Lairs was an old deserted city, lost and buried in the jun-gle, and beasts seldom use a place that men have once used.
-- The monkeys called the place their city, and pretend-ed to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.
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：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- 'Being little accustomed to the practices of the savages, Alice, you mistake the place of real danger,' said Heyward.
-- ' Bryant eaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confid-Ling companions to penetrate still deeper into a forest that contained such treacherous inmates, we must use an author's privilege, and shift the scene a few miles to the westward of the place where we have last seen them.
-- 'We came from the place where the sun is hid at night, over great plains where the buffaloes live, until we reached the big river.
-- We said the country should be ours from the place where the water runs up no longer on this stream, to a river twenty sun's journey toward the summer.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
-- Certain it is, the place still con-tinues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
-- From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the cen-tre of the mansion, and the place of usual residence.
-- Such was one of the favorite haunts of the Headless Horseman, and the place where he was most frequently encountered.
-- He repaid them in kind with large extracts from his invaluable author, Cot-ton Mather, and added many marvellous events that had taken place in his native State of Connecticut, and fearful sights which he had seen in his nightly walks about Sleepy Hollow.
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：
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
-- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius.
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