1、take place接近happen,意思为发生、进行：When and where does the story take place?故事发生在何时何地? 2、take the place of 代替、顶替、取代：The helicopter may take the place of a car some day.也许有一天直升机会取代汽车. 3、in (the) place of 相当于instead of 也是代替的意思,但instead of 还含有“而不是”的意思. We now have trucks in place of carts.我们现在已有了卡车取代大车.They went there on foot instead of on bus.他们没乘公共汽车而是步行到那里去的. 没有take place of这种结构的.
