command是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 命令， 指挥， 控制n. 掌握， 运用能力，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command was not likely.
-- In 1791, the French Government, justly uneasy as to the fate of these two sloops, manned two large merchantmen, the Recherche and the Esperance, which left Brest the 28th of September under the command of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.
-- Captain Nemo, having more command over himself, was cool.
-- This rash and powerful man could not command the sun as he did the sea.
-- "I will add," he continued, "that, being as handy with the pickaxe as with the harpoon, if I can be useful to the Captain, he can command my services."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a strange, wild command from out of the unknown.
-- Her children moved unconsciously together, in a nearer group, at the dreadful command in her voice.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
-- And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and, wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him re enter directly!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When all the wagons were loaded with sacks and those that were permitted to ride, the guard officer uncovered his bald head, wiped with a handkerchief his pate, forehead and red, stout neck, made the sign of the cross, and gave command to proceed.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 5 The Last of the Blind ManY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
-- He had no command among the men, and people did what they pleased with him.
-- Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst.
-- So saying, he stepped back a little way, till he was out of earshot, and there sat down upon a tree-stump and began to whistle, spinning round now and again upon his seat so as to command a sight, sometimes of me and the doctor and sometimes of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro in the sand between the fire which they were busy rekindling and the house, from which they brought forth pork and bread to make the breakfast.
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