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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two god-desses then sat down upon their golden thrones, amid the company of the other gods; but they were very angry.
-- The two then went onwards amid the fallen armour and the blood, and came presently to the company of Thra-cian soldiers, who were sleeping, tired out with their day's toil; their goodly armour was lying on the ground beside them all orderly in three rows, and each man had his yoke of horses beside him.
-- The next company was led by Paris, Alcathous, and Agenor; the third by Helenus and Deiphobus, two sons of Priam, and with them was the hero Asius Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whose great black horses of the breed that comes from the river Selleis had brought him from Arisbe.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not think I have ever heard quite so much vile language come in a continuous stream from any man's lips before, though I have frequented eccentric company enough.
-- At the gates of the enclosure our company of Beast People left us, M'ling going with the rest.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
-- 'If we were alone, and you would leave that noble horse at the mercy of the wolves to-night, I could show you the way to Edward my-self, within an hour, for it lies only about an hour's journey hence; but with such ladies in your company 'tis impossi-ble!'
-- repeated the scout; 'I wouldn't walk a mile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies.
-- After uttering the usual words of greeting, he turned to Duncan, and continued, with a smile of recogni-tion, speaking always in French: 'I am rejoiced, monsieur, that you have given us the plea-sure of your company on this occasion.
-- Now, if you had a company of the Roy-al Americans here, in what manner would you set them to work in this business?'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think the company of poor, simple people would have done his soul a great good.
-- What he said had a hateful truth in it, and another defect of my character is that I enjoy the company of those, however depraved, who can give me a Roland for my Oliver.
-- It is like the sadness which you may see in the jester's eyes when a merry company is laughing at his sallies; his lips smile and his jokes are gayer because in the communion of laughter he finds himself more intolerably alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You interrupted us at a critical moment,' said he, pointing to the man whom I had found in company with him; 'this fellow will murder me one of these days.
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- The noise was at its height, and half the company had elevated their voices into a perfect shriek in order to drown the voices of the other half, when Mrs Jiniwin was seen to change colour and shake her forefinger stealthily, as if exhorting them to silence.
-- His friend discovered that it was time for him to fulfil some other engagement, and Richard Swiveller was accordingly left alone, in company with the rosy wine and his own meditations touching Miss Sophy Wackles.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the entire day and evening preceding his death deceased passed in the company of a girl named Lubka (Katherine Maslova) in the Hotel Mauritania, whither said Maslova came at the request of Smelkoff for money; that she obtained the money from Smelkoff's trunk, first unlocking it with a key intrusted to her by Smelkoff; that the money was thus taken in the presence of two servants of the said hotel--Euphemia Bochkova and Simon Kartinkin; that at the opening of said trunk by the said Maslova in the presence of the aforementioned Bochkova and Kartinkin, there were rolls of hundred ruble bills.
-- The libel consisted in an article accusing the president of a stock company of swindling.
-- The cause of Selenin's ardor lay in the fact that he knew the president of the stock company to be dishonest in money affairs, while he accidentally learned that Wolf, almost on the eve of the hearing of the case, had attended a sumptuous dinner at the president's house.
-- Thus, in this case, besides the consideration that the complaining president of the stock company was an unclean man, B脙漏 was in favor of affirming the judgment, also because this charge of libel against a journalist was a restriction on the freedom of the press.
-- Skovorodnikoff, who was sitting opposite Wolf, continually gathering with his thick fingers his beard and mustache into his mouth, as soon as B脙漏 was through with his argument, stopped chewing his beard, and, in a loud, rasping voice, said that although the president of the stock company was a villain, he should favor a reversal if there were legal grounds to sustain it, but as there were none, he joined in the opinion of Ivan Semenovitch (B脙漏), and he invariably rejoiced at this shot aimed at Wolf.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock, and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro, and making uncanny noises to each other, as the glare of the fire beat on them.
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