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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My master gave public notice that he would show me again the next market-day; and in the meantime he pre-pared a convenient vehicle for me, which he had reason enough to do; for I was so tired with my first journey, and with entertaining company for eight hours together, that I could hardly stand upon my legs, or speak a word.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, the various members of Sleary's company gradually gathered together from the upper regions, where they were quartered, and, from standing about, talking in low voices to one another and to Mr. Childers, gradually insinuated themselves and him into the room.
-- They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
-- The whole company perceived the force of the change, and drew a long breath together, that plainly said, 'she will go!'
-- Mr. Sleary stood in the middle of the room, with the male members of the company about him, exactly as he would have stood in the centre of the ring during his daughter Josephine's performance.
-- But she had to take her farewell of the male part of the company yet, and every one of them had to unfold his arms (for they all assumed the professional attitude when they found themselves near Sleary), and give her a parting kiss Master Kidderminster excepted, in whose young nature there was an original flavour of the misanthrope, who was also known to have harboured matrimonial views, and who moodily withdrew.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the evening we dined with Baron Trampe, in company with the Mayor of Reykjavik, and Doctor Hyaltalin, the great medical man of Iceland.
-- The courageous Icelander then carried me in his powerful arms, far out of the reach of the waves, and laid me down upon a burning expanse of sand, where I found myself some time afterwards in the company of my uncle, the Professor.
-- "There is no longer any water, Harry," he answered, "but a kind of lava paste, which is heaving us up, in company with itself, to the mouth of the crater."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, it's so good for you, if you go out and see a bit of company sometimes,' said Mrs Bolton.
-- She had refused his company for the evening.
-- The Grange Farm Old Heanor 29 September I got on here with a bit of contriving, because I knew Richards, the company engineer, in the army.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a triumphant air:'Here I am!See me!Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler; shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.
-- The breakfast beginning by-and-by to languish, Mr Meagles made the company a speech.
-- 'Not,' said Pet, apologetically and embarrassed by her eyes, 'not, of course, that we are any company to you, or that we have been able to be so, or that we thought you wished it.'
-- Fifty thousand lairs surrounded him where people lived so unwholesomely that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morning; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their butcher's meat.
-- It looked small at first, but there was very good company there among a mixture necessarily a mixture and very good air.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small-ness of the company made it necessary for the two principal actors to take several parts apiece, and they certainly de-served some credit for the hard work they did in learning three or four different parts, whisking in and out of various costumes, and managing the stage besides.
-- You see I've been abroad a good many years, and haven't been into company enough yet to know how you do things here.'
-- 'It does seem pleasant to be quiet, and not have company manners on all the time.
-- 'Aren't you company too?
-- Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah 'knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the evening as a looker on.
-- So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon enrolled among the same ship's company to which I myself belonged.
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