compound是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 混合物(的) , 复合词(的) v. 使混合, 使复杂，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and orang-es were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He whiffed the compound of scents away, as he put down his smoked-out pipe.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- means cubic centimeter and those to whom it means compound cathartic.
-- Martin had brought with him strains of Bacillus lepisepticus, which causes a pleuro- pneumonia in rabbits, and their first labor was to discover whether their original compound was effective against this bacillus as well as against pneumococcus.
-- Profanely they found that it was not; profanely and patiently they trudged into an infinitely complicated search for a compound that should be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, to make it a more sovereign specific, he was so kind asto squeeze orange-juice into it, or to stir it up with ginger, ordissolve a peppermint-drop in it; and although I cannot assert thatthe flavour was improved by these experiments, or that it wasexactly the compound one would have chosen for a stomachic, thelast thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank itgratefully, and was very sensible of his attention.
-- The glory of lodging over this structure wouldhave compensated him, I dare say, for many inconveniences; but,as there were really few to bear, beyond the compound of flavoursI have already mentioned, and perhaps the want of a little moreelbow-room, he was perfectly charmed with his accommodation.
-- These, it seemed, were calculations of compound interest on whathe called 'the principal amount of forty-one, ten, eleven and a half,'for various periods.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.
-- That was not particularly well; for he remained in the greatest perplexity, and, as the hours went on, and no kind of explanation offered itself, his perplexity augmented at compound interest.
-- Knowing that your clear head would propose that alternative, I have gone over the calculations in my mind; and I find that to compound a felony, even on very high terms indeed, would not be as safe and good for me as my improved prospects in the Bank.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To question him in detail, and endeavour to reconcile his answers; to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners, learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy; was only to put the case out at compound interest and incomprehensibility.
-- If you will undertake to let the young man know that he is free, and to tell him that you were employed to compound for the debt by some one whom you are not at liberty to name, you will not only do me a service, but may do him one, and his sister also.'
-- He was dressed in black and rusty iron grey; had jet black beads of eyes; a scrubby little black chin; wiry black hair striking out from his head in prongs, like forks or hair-pins; and a complexion that was very dingy by nature, or very dirty by art, or a compound of nature and art.
-- There's a compound fracture above the knee, and a dislocation below.
-- And he thought who has not thought for a moment, sometimes? that it might be better to flow away monotonously, like the river, and to compound for its insensibility to happiness with its insensibility to pain.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hold your tongue, Beadle,' said the second old gentleman, when Mr. Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective.
-- Her disordered appearance, and a wholesale perfume of Geneva which pervaded the apartment, afforded strong confirmatory evidence of the justice of the Jew's supposition; and when, after indulging in the temporary display of violence above described, she subsided, first into dullness, and afterwards into a compound of feelings: under the influence of which she shed tears one minute, and in the next gave utterance to various exclamations of 'Never say die!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pleased to find herself more comfortably situated in that particular than she had expected, Elinor was very willing to compound for the want of much real enjoyment from any of their evening parties, which, whether at home or abroad, formed only for cards, could have little to amuse her.
-- 'It would have been beyond comparison,' she said, 'the least evil of the two, and she would be glad to compound NOW for nothing worse.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the past he had always commanded a certain amount of respect, which was a compound of appreciation and awe.
-- We'll make her," and the manager gave one of his quick, steely half-smiles, which was a compound of good-nature and shrewdness.
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