compensation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 补偿(或赔偿) 的款物； 补偿， 赔偿，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：
-- We could not complain, and, indeed, the singularity of our fate reserved such wonderful compensation for us that we had no right to accuse it as yet.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in compensation he gave no quarter to the enemy either.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only mean that I suppose some compensation is fair andreasonable in that sort of marriage.'
-- 'Compensation to the lady,sir?'
-- His satisfaction in which happy imposition on us, 291and in having preserved the impenetrable secret of the box,appeared to be a sufficient compensation to him for all his tortures.
-- An angry flush over-spread her features; and 434she said, in an intolerant manner, grasping the arm-chair tightlywith her hands'What compensation can you make to me foropening such a pit between me and my son?
-- It's hisonly compensation for the outward restraints he puts upon himself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I think of my brother, livingamong the sacred cows of Charleston, and most reverent toward them, and remember his stodgy wife and his SaintCecilia Balls and his everlasting rice fields then I know the compensation for breaking with the system.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As compensation what for?"
-- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends!--"O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am quite sure that it is the only compensation you have left it in your power to make.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it is any compensation for my long confinement within these narrow limits not that I complain of being afflicted; you know I never complain of that if it is any compensation to me for long confinement to this room, that while I am shut up from all pleasant change I am also shut up from the knowledge of some things that I may prefer to avoid knowing, why should you, of all men, grudge me that belief?'
-- The unexpected consequences of this notification suggested to the dismayed Mr Meagles for the first time that some hundreds of young persons must be leaving their homes without reflection every day; for shoals of wrong young people came down to Twickenham, who, not finding themselves received with enthusiasm, generally demanded compensation by way of damages, in addition to coach-hire there and back.
-- Perhaps his irascibility demanded compensation for some tediousness that the visitor had expended on him; however that was, he took such umbrage at seeing his wife with her apron over her head, that he charged at her, and taking her veiled nose between his thumb and finger, appeared to throw the whole screw-power of his person into the wring he gave it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There probably were a good many happy little girls in and about the city that day, but it is my private opin-ion that Amy was the happiest of all, when she sat in her mother's lap and told her trials, receiving consolation and compensation in the shape of approving smiles and fond caresses.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the first time he had ever suggested doing an errand, but, somehow, the wish to sit about the house prompted it as a sort of compensation for the privilege.
-- The compensation paid for such a trip was only twenty-five cents.
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