compass是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 指南针, 圆规, 界限，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So with the three passengers shut up in the narrow compass of one lumbering old mail coach; they were mysteries to one another, as complete as if each had been in his own coach and six, or his own coach and sixty, with the breadth of a county between him and the next.
-- 248 A tale of two citiesXVI Still Knitting adame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned Mamicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This child's presence called up both in Vronsky and in Anna a feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one, but that to arrest his motion is not in his power, that every instant is carrying him further and further away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.
-- This child, with his innocent outlook upon life, was the compass that showed them the point to which they had departed from what they knew, but did not want to know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was for any description of policy, in the compass of a week;and nailed all sorts of colours to every denomination of mast.
-- '"It is not my intention,"' he continued, reading on, '"to enter on adetailed list, within the compass of the present epistle (though it isready elsewhere), of the various malpractices of a minor nature,affecting the individual whom I have denominated Mr. W., towhich I have been a tacitly consenting party.
-- From babies who had but a week or two of lifebehind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to havebut a week or two of life before them; and from ploughmen bodilycarrying out soil of England on their boots, to smiths taking awaysamples of its soot and smoke upon their skins; every age andoccupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass ofthe 'tween decks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man.
-- At evening he had fancifully traced it down the chimney to the spot of its origin seen the hearth and Bathsheba beside it beside it in her out-door dress; for the clothes she had worn on the hill were by association equally with her person included in the compass of his affection; they seemed at this early time of his love a necessary ingredient of the sweet mixture called Bathsheba Everdene.
-- That minute's interval had brought the blood beating into her face, set her stinging as if aflame to the very hollows of her feet, and enlarged emotion to a compass which quite swamped thought.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
-- Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the ex-ercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
-- Imag-ination, fancy, and invention, they are wholly strangers to, nor have any words in their language, by which those ideas can be expressed; the whole compass of their thoughts and 204 Gulliver's Travelsmind being shut up within the two forementioned sciences.
-- For his highness the governor ordered me 'to call up whatever persons I would choose to name, and in whatever numbers, among all the dead from the begin-ning of the world to the present time, and command them to answer any questions I should think fit to ask; with this condition, that my questions must be confined within the compass of the times they lived in.
-- The spot, as he described it, 'was about the compass of a sil- ver threepence, but in the course of time grew larger, and changed its colour; for at twelve years old it became green, 261so continued till five and twenty, then turned to a deep blue: at five and forty it grew coal black, and as large as an Eng-lish shilling; but never admitted any further alteration.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So much indeed did it resemble that useful article, that a compass was said in his presence to have made considerable N (Nasal) deviation.
-- Here we found Nature proceeding geometrically, and working quite after a human fashion, as if she had employed the plummet line, the compass and the rule.
-- The compass indicated that we were moving in a southeasterly direction.
-- Take the compass and examine how she points."
-- The needle of the compass pointed due north--in the direction we expected was the south!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, John Baptist, now able to choose his own spot within the compass of those walls for the exercise of his faculty of going to sleep when he would, lay down upon the bench, with his face turned over on his crossed arms, and slumbered.
-- 'You're not particular to east or north-east, any point of the compass will do for you.
-- Howbeit, the father did not fail in any outward show of politeness, but, on the contrary, honoured him with much attention; perhaps cherishing the hope that, although not a man of a sufficiently brilliant and spontaneous turn of mind to repeat his former testimonial unsolicited, it might still be within the compass of his nature to bear the part of a responsive gentleman, in any correspondence that way tending.
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