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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope we shall soon become acquainted with each other, and that the company of these ladies will make our voyage in the SCOTIA appear as short as agreeable."
-- I only hope you will not find our company too dull."
-- Manuel could not conceive of any state but a military one, and he hoped in due time, with the help of God, to offer the republic a whole company of young soldiers.
-- This very year the Government threatened to withdraw its subsidy from the Peninsular Company if their vessels continued to take in coal in those western parts of Australia where convicts are admitted.
-- Lady Helena, whose interest was greatly excited by this spectacle, got out of the wagon, followed by Mary, and presently the whole company surrounded the peaceful little sleeper.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The company had come to a halt, more sober men, as you may guess, than when they started.
-- I am perfectly sat-isfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime.
-- asked Adelaida, who alone of all the company seemed to have preserved her good temper and spirits up to now.
-- But exactly three months later at the inspection of the brigade, the man Kolpakoff was found in the third company of the second battalion of infantry, Novozemlianski division, just as if nothing had happened!'
-- General Sokolovitch (by the way, I have not called on him lately, or seen Anna Fedorovna)... You know, my dear prince, when a person does not receive company himself, he gives up going to other people's houses involun-tarily.
-- The company assembled at Nastasia Philipovna's con-sisted of none but her most intimate friends, and formed a very small party in comparison with her usual gatherings on this anniversary.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup-bearer.
-- With this he left them and went onward to Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, who was marshalling his men and urging them on, in company with Pelagon, Alastor, Chromius, Haemon, and Bias shepherd of his people.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she walked quite aimlessly for a time, turning here and there, seeing one great company after another, but finding no courage to prosecute her single inquiry.
-- At the latter laboured quite a company of girls and some men.
-- It was with weak knees and a slight catch in her breathing that she came up to the great shoe company at Adams and Fifth Avenue and entered the elevator.
-- He loved fine clothes, good eating, and particularly the company and acquaintanceship of successful men.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dern your skin, ain't the company good enough for you?'
-- You see, he was pretty old, and George's g'yirls was too young to be much company for him, except Mary Jane, the red-headed one; and so he was kinder lonesome after George and his wife died, and didn't seem to care much to live.
-- ' and load up the cabin with rats and snakes and so on, for company for Jim; and then you kept Tom here so long with the butter in his hat that you come near spiling the whole business, because the men come before we was out of the cabin, and we had to rush, and they heard us and let drive at us, and I got my share, and we dodged out of the path and let them go by, and when the dogs come they warn't interested in us, but went for the most noise, and we got our canoe, and made for the raft, and was all safe, and Jim was a free man, and we done it all by ourselves, and WASN'T it bully, Aunty!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to describe the shrieks of joy, the warm embraces, the knocks, and the friendly greetings with which that strange company of dramatic actors and actresses received Pinocchio.
-- At this unlooked-for entertainment, the whole company of runaways laughed uproariously.
-- The announcements, posted all around the town, and written in large letters, read thus: GREAT SPECTACLE TONIGHT LEAPS AND EXERCISES BY THE GREAT ARTISTS AND THE FAMOUS HORSES of the COMPANY First Public Appearance of the FAMOUS DONKEY called PINOCCHIO THE STAR OF THE DANCE ---- The Theater will be as Light as Day That night, as you can well imagine, the theater was filled to overflowing one hour before the show was scheduled to start.
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