| 单词 | place |
| 例句 | place noun 1.•an ideal place for dinner:location, site, spot, setting, position, situation, area, region, locale | venue | technical locus. 2.•foreign places:country, state, area, region, town, city | locality, district | literary clime. 3.•a place of her own:home, house, flat, apartment | accommodations, property, pied-à-terre | rooms, quarters | informal pad, digs | formal residence, abode, dwelling (place), domicile, habitation. 4.•if I were in your place, I'd sell now:situation, position, circumstances | informal shoes. 5.•a place was reserved for her:seat, chair, space. 6.•I offered him a place in the company:job, position, post, appointment, situation, office | employment. 7.•I know my place:status, position, standing, rank, niche | dated estate, station. 8.•it was not her place to sort it out:responsibility, duty, job, task, role, function, concern, affair, charge | right, privilege, prerogative.▶verb 1.•books were placed on the table:put (down), set (down), lay, deposit, position, plant, rest, stand, station, situate, leave | informal stick, dump, park, plonk, pop, plunk. 2.•the trust you placed in me:put, lay, set, invest. 3.•a survey placed the company sixth:rank, order, grade, class, classify, categorize | put, set, assign. 4.•Joe couldn't quite place her:identify, recognize, remember, put a name to, pin down | locate, pinpoint. 5.•we were placed with foster parents:house with, billet to | allocate to, assign to, appoint to. PHRASES in the first place •in the first place, you're not old enough:initially, at first, at the start, at the outset, in/at the beginning, in the first instance, to begin with, to start with, originally. PHRASES in place 1.•the veil was held in place by pearls:in position, in situ. 2.•the plans are in place:ready, set up, all set, established, arranged, in order. in place of •in place of fresh flowers, use sprays of dried lavender:instead of, rather than, as a substitute for, as a replacement for, in exchange for, in lieu of | in someone's stead. out of place 1.•she never had a hair out of place:out of position, out of order, in disarray, disarranged, in a mess, messy, topsy-turvy, muddled. 2.•he said something out of place:inappropriate, unsuitable, unseemly, improper, untoward, out of keeping, unbecoming, wrong. 3.•she seemed out of place at the literary parties:incongruous, out of one's element, like a fish out of water | uncomfortable, uneasy. put someone in their place •Marsha's father-in-law finally spoke up and put that hateful woman in her place:humiliate, take down a peg or two, deflate, crush, squash, humble | informal cut down to size, settle someone's hash, make someone eat crow. take place •the site where the crash took place:happen, occur, come about, transpire, crop up, materialize, arise, go down | literary come to pass, befall, betide. take the place of •I know I'll never be able to take the place of your father:replace, stand in for, substitute for, act for, fill in for, cover for, relieve. |
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