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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The presence of Aouda on the Rangoon, in company with Phileas Fogg, gave him new material for reflection.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This autumn the Digams elected Ira Hinkley, because they had been gaining a reputation for dissipation--girls were said to have been smuggled in late at night--and no company which included the Reverend Mr. Hinkley could possibly be taken by the Dean as immoral, which was an advantage if they were to continue comfortably immoral.
-- It was announced in the Winnemac Daily News that Dr. Geake had been called from the chair of otolaryngology to the vice-presidency of the puissant New Idea Medical Instrument and Furniture Company of Jersey City.
-- But so far as possible have everything in sanitary- looking white-- and think of the color-schemes you can evolve, or the good wife for you, if she be one blessed with artistic tastes!Rich golden or red cushions, in a Morris chair enameled the purest white!A floor-covering of white enamel, with just a border of delicate rose!Recent and unspotted numbers of expensive magazines, with art covers, lying on a white table!Gentlemen, there is the idea of imaginative salesmanship which I wish to leave with you; there is the gospel which I hope to spread in my fresh field of endeavor, the New Idea Instrument Company of Jersey City, where at any time I shall be glad to see and shake by the hand any and all of you."
-- The Hunziker Company was an old and ethical house which dealt only with reputable doctors--or practically only with reputable doctors.
-- In the medical periodicals the Dawson Hunziker Company published full-page advertisements, most starchy and refined in type, announcing that Professor Max Gottlieb, perhaps the most distinguished immunologist in the world, had joined their staff.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the 'Dead House,' and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion.
-- In spite of the mo-mentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately his habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him.
-- Hence in the company of other drinkers they try to justify them- selves and even if possible obtain consideration.
-- Razumihin's room was fairly large; the company consisted of fifteen people.
-- Razumihin, completely put to confusion by upsetting the table and smashing the glass, gazed gloomily at the fragments, cursed and turned sharply to the window where he stood looking out with his back to the company with a fiercely scowling countenance, seeing nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is something of a doleful air about that room to me, forPeggotty has told me- I don't know when, but apparently ages ago-about my father's funeral, and the company having their blackcloaks put on.
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- Isuppose we were company to each other, without talking.
-- 'I only say,' he resumed, addressing me, 'that I disapprove of yourpreferring such company as Mistress Peggotty, and that it is to be 118abandoned.
-- So, when we reached home, I dropped outof the chaise behind, as quickly as possible, that I might not be intheir company before those solemn windows, looking blindly onme like closed eyes once bright.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I think, Harriet, since your acquaintance with us, you have been repeatedly in the company of some such very real gentlemen, that you must yourself be struck with the differ-ence in Mr. Martin.
-- I should be sur-prized if, after seeing them, you could be in company with Mr. Martin again without perceiving him to be a very infe-rior creature and rather wondering at yourself for having ever thought him at all agreeable before.
-- If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?
-- 'That Mr. Elton should really be in love with me, me, of all people, who did not know him, to speak to him, at Michaelmas!And he, the very handsomest man that ever was, and a man that every body looks up to, quite like Mr. Knightley!His company so sought after, that every body says he need not eat a single meal by himself if he does not chuse it; that he has more invitations than there are days in the week.
-- 'Harriet must give us as much of her company as she can while my brother and sister are here.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
-- "True enough," said the man of bitter moods, looking round upon the company with the antithetic laughter that comes from a keener appreciation of the miseries of life than ordinary men are capable of.
-- "Well, 'tis an honest deed, and we thank ye for it, Pennyways," said Joseph; to which opinion the remainder of the company subscribed unanimously.
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