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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer was to them a microcosm, a compound of every science, a possessor of all human knowledge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Short Trotters however, being a compound name, inconvenient of use in friendly dialogue, the gentleman on whom it had been bestowed was known among his intimates either as 'Short,' or 'Trotters,' and was seldom accosted at full length as Short Trotters, except in formal conversations and on occasions of ceremony.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,' was the reflection suggested by this compound order.
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：
-- The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weath-er-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of ex-quisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.
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