combat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 战斗, 搏斗，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：
-- Let me persuade you for it will be better thus stay the combat for to-day, but let them renew the fight hereafter till they compass the doom of Ilius, since you goddesses have made up your minds to destroy the city.'
-- Thereon they would have hacked at one another in close combat with their swords, had not heralds, messen-gers of gods and men, come forward, one from the Trojans and the other from the Achaeans Talthybius and Idaeus both of them honourable men; these parted them with their staves, and the good herald Idaeus said, 'My sons, fight no longer, you are both of you valiant, and both are dear to Jove; we know this; but night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid.'
-- Diomed all undaunted answered, 'Archer, you who with-out your bow are nothing, slanderer and seducer, if you were to be tried in single combat fighting in full armour, your bow and your arrows would serve you in little stead.
-- Then they fought furiously in close combat about the body of Alcathous, wielding their long spears; and the bronze ar-mour about their bodies rang fearfully as they took aim at one another in the press of the fight, while the two heroes Aeneas and Idomeneus, peers of Mars, outvied everyone in their desire to hack at each other with sword and spear.
-- Helenus then struck Deipyrus with a great Thracian sword, hitting him on the temple in close combat and tear-ing the helmet from his head; the helmet fell to the ground, and one of those who were fighting on the Achaean side took charge of it as it rolled at his feet, but the eyes of Dei-pyrus were closed in the darkness of death.
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：
-- Did the old heroes combat there?
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：
-- His countenance was composed, though thoughtful, while his dark, gleaming eyes were gradually losing the fierceness of the combat in an expres-sion better suited to the change he expected momentarily to undergo.
-- ' Death of Agrippina he sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring Tincidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of Heyward like some exciting dream.
-- It is true there were short and fleeting moments, when the fiery eyes of Magua were seen glittering, like the fabled organs of the basilisk through the dusty wreath by which he was enveloped, and he read by those short and deadly glances the fate of the combat in the presence of his enemies; ere, however, any hostile hand could descend on his devoted head, its place was filled by the scowling visage of Chingachgook.
-- In this manner the scene of the combat was removed from the cen-ter of the little plain to its verge.
-- It was, of course, with a perfect understanding of the min-ute and intricate interests which had armed friend against friend, and brought natural enemies to combat by each oth-er's side, that the scout and his companions now disposed themselves to deliberate on the measures that were to gov-ern their future movements, amid so many jarring and savage races of men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a single combat of some duration they returned, and I saw, tomy joy, both in Mrs. Crupp's countenance and in my aunt's, thatthe deed was done.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Short was plying the quarter-staves vigorously and knocking the characters in the fury of the combat against the sides of the show, the people were looking on with laughing faces, and Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I passed an hour in this state of mind, when suddenly I reflected how fearful the combat which I momentarily ex-pected would be to my wife, and I earnestly entreated her to retire, resolving not to join her until I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now he had spoken the frightful words!Goose bumps came outall over her and fear swamped her, a superstitious fear she could not combat with reason.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only in the corner where the combat had taken place could I detect any evidence of the young gentleman's existence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 25 THE WHISPERING GALLERY CHAPTER 26 A RAPID RECOVERY CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA CHAPTER 28 LAUNCHING THE RAFT CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT CHAPTER 31 THE SEA MONSTER CHAPTER 32 THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER 33 OUR ROUTE REVERSED CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT?
-- CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT Saturday, August 15th.
-- The combat commenced.
-- Such a combat was never seen before by mortal eyes, and to us who did see it, it appeared more like the phantasmagoric creation of a dream than anything else.
-- Still the combat could not last forever; and woe unto us, whichsoever became the victor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through. It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale. It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements. It's a blasted heath. It's a Hyperborean winter scene. It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had little difficulty in understanding thus much of her rival's intentions, and while she was firmly resolved to act by her as every principle of honour and honesty directed, to combat her own affection for Edward and to see him as little as possible; she could not deny herself the comfort of endeavouring to convince Lucy that her heart was unwounded.
-- Her first communication had reached no farther than to state the fact of the engagement, and the length of time it had existed. Marianne's feelings had then broken in, and put an end to all regularity of detail; and for some time all that could be done was to soothe her distress, lessen her alarms, and combat her resentment.
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