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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nautical leagues.
-- In every place of great resort the monster was the fashion.
-- The bearings of the place were taken exactly, and the Moravian continued its route without apparent damage.
-- The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch.
-- But one circumstance happened which showed the wonderful dexterity of Ned Land, and proved what confidence we might place in him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She loved to recognise their various characteristics, to place them in their true light, give them their own surroundings, settle them for ever as they passed before her along the path to the church.
-- Ursula turned towards the bride and the people, and, from her place of vantage, gave an inarticulate cry.
-- "Probably," said Birkin, who felt that such a discussion was out of place and out of time.
-- The class-room was distinct and hard, a strange place after the soft dim magic that filled it before he came.
-- It all takes place in your head, under that skull of yours.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.
-- He probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
-- I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle.
-- No, no!A stranger is a stranger, be he rich or poor: it will not suit me to permit any one the range of the place while I am off guard!'
-- In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff Linton, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested five minutes when a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres the air swarmed with Catherines; and rousing myself to dispel the obtrusive name, I discovered my candle wick reclining on one of the antique volumes, and perfuming the place with an odour of roasted calf skin.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to her; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree so she stood and softly repeated to herself: 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King's horses and all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.'
-- The King was evidently very uncomfortable at having to sit down between the two great creatures; but there was no other place for him.
-- 'Now cut it up,' said the Lion, as she returned to her place with the empty dish.
-- In fact it was rather difficult for her to keep in her place while she made her speech: the two Queens pushed her so, one on each side, that they nearly lifted her up into the air: 'I rise to return thanks ' Alice began: and she really did rise as she spoke, several inches; but she got hold of the edge of the table, and managed to pull herself down again.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down the morning before at the Royal George, that he had inquired what inns there were along the coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as lonely, had chosen it from the others for his place of residence.
-- In a few cases, to be sure, the name of a place would be added, as "Offe Caraccas," or a mere entry of latitude and longitude, as "62o 17' 20", 19o 2' 40"."
-- I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving; and now, at sight of this clumsy stranger, who was to stay here in my place beside my mother, I had my first attack of tears.
-- 8 At the Sign of the Spy-glassHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the Spy-glass, and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope for sign.
-- It was a bright enough little place of entertainment.
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