company是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 公司； 陪伴； 宾客； 连(队) ， (一) 群， 队， 伙，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the al-monds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.
-- The very lamplighter, who ran on 68 Sons and Loversbefore, dotting the dusky street with specks of light, and who was dressed to spend the evening somewhere, laughed out loudly as the Spirit passed, though little kenned the lamplighter that he had any company but Christmas.
-- Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire.
-- Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trem-bled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
-- 'I an't so fond of his company that I'd loiter about him for such things, if he did.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had stopped when the coach stopped, and they kept close company with it.
-- 'But I would hold a pretty wager, sir, that a House like Tellson and Company was flourishing, a matter of fifty, not to speak of fifteen years ago?'
-- Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine.
-- Mr. Jarvis Lorry and Miss Manette, emerging from the wine-shop thus, joined Monsieur Defarge in the doorway to which he had directed his own company just before.
-- In silence they go walking up and down together, walking up and down together, till her love and company have brought him to himself.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house: 'Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.'
-- Her nephew, a merry boy, who was his aunt's dar-ling, begged so long for these spectacles, that, at last, she lent him the treasure, after having informed him, with many exhortations, that in order to execute the interesting trick, he need only repair to some place where a great many persons were assembled; and then, from a higher position, whence he could overlook the crowd, pass the company in review before him through his spectacles.
-- He had exquisite manners, and bowed to the company on all sides; for he had noble blood, and was, moreover, accustomed to the society of man alone; and that makes a great difference.
-- It was so old, that it began to think of marriage; and it happened that it came to be washed in company with a gar-ter.
-- A long time passed away, then the collar came into the rag chest at the paper mill; there was a large company of rags, the fine by themselves, and the coarse by themselves, just as it should be.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know why it is," responded Vronsky, "in all Moscow people--present company of course excepted," he put in jestingly, "there's something uncompromising.
-- You are one of those delightful women in whose company it's sweet to be silent as well as to talk.
-- Konstantin felt a sharp pang at his heart at the thought of the strange company in which his brother spent his life.
-- The position of uncertainty, of indecision, was still the same as at home--worse, in fact, since it was impossible to take any step, impossible to see Vronsky, and she had to remain here among outsiders, in company so uncongenial to her present mood.
-- The company got up at this moment to go into the garden.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGGThe distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the company allow the steamers one hundred and thirty-eight hours in which to traverse it.
-- This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year.
-- The celebrated East India Company was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gained a foothold on the spot where now stands the city of Madras, down to the time of the great Sepoy insurrection.
-- But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving the British possessions in India directly under the control of the Crown.
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