post-office是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 邮局，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：
-- The Government itself displayed zeal and prudence, especially in the Post-office department.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This anticipation was strictly verified, for Kit had had his dinner, and his tea, and had read all the lighter matter in the Law-List, and the Post-Office Directory, and had fallen asleep a great many times, before the gentleman whom he had seen before, came in; which he did at last in a very great hurry.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The post-office has agreat charm at one period of our lives.
-- 'My dear Jane, what is this I hear? Going to the post-office in the rain! This must not be, I assure you. You sad girl, how could you do such a thing? It is a sign I was not there to take care of you.'
-- You really are a very sad girl, and do not know how to take care of yourself. To the post-office indeed!Mrs.
-- I am advised to be out of doors as much as I can, I must walk somewhere, and the post-office is an object; and upon my word, I have scarcely ever had a bad morning before.'
-- 'The post-office is a wonderful establishment!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same evening the letter was sent, and was duly sorted in Casterbridge post-office that night, to be returned to Weatherbury again in the morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His mouth was such a post-office of a mouth that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling.
-- By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again.
-- Equally in his stopping at the bars and attending to anxious whisperers,--always singly,--Wemmick with his post-office in an immovable state, looked at them while in conference, as if he were taking particular notice of the advance they had made, since last observed, towards coming out in full blow at their trial.
-- "Now, that's the way with them here, Mr. Pip," remarked Wemmick, turning to me with his post-office elongated.
-- Wemmick tightened his post-office and shook his head, as if his opinion were dead against any fatal weakness of that sort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The post-office hasn't been forgotten either.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Gowan's door was attended by a family servant of several years' standing, who had his own crow to pluck with the public concerning a situation in the Post-Office which he had been for some time expecting, and to which he was not yet appointed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the Post-Office is equal to it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He decided to write her care of the West Side Post-office and ask for an explanation, as well as to have her meet him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We fol-lowed the men and the dogs, but they outrun us, and we lost them; but we thought we heard them on the water, so we got a canoe and took out after them and crossed over, but couldn't find nothing of them; so we cruised along up-shore till we got kind of tired and beat out; and tied up the canoe and went to sleep, and never waked up till about an hour ago; then we paddled over here to hear the news, and Sid's at the post-office to see what he can hear, and I'm a-branch- ing out to get something to eat for us, and then we're going home.'
-- So then we went to the post-office to get 'Sid"; but just as I suspicioned, he warn't there; so the old man he got a let-ter out of the office, and we waited awhile longer, but Sid didn't come; so the old man said, come along, let Sid foot it home, or canoe it, when he got done fooling around but we would ride.
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