composition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 作品， 作文， 乐曲； 作曲； 结构， 组成， 成分，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：
-- As to the substances used in the composition of glass, they are simply sand, chalk, and soda, either carbonate or sulphate.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In college he had felt that prosody and Latin Composition were futile, and he had looked forward to the study of medicine as illumination.
-- Once Leora started for the stairs, to go up and pack; once Martin and she stood waving their napkins as they shook their fists, the general composition remarkably like the Laocoon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Overthe little mantel-shelf, was a picture of the Sarah Jane lugger, builtat Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a workof art, combining composition with carpentry, which I consideredto be one of the most enviable possessions that the world couldafford.
-- I signed myself, hers distractedly; and I couldn't helpfeeling, while I read this composition over, before sending it by aporter, that it was something in the style of Mr. Micawber.
-- With a lightenedheart, though with a profound sense of the weighty importance ofmy task, I devoted the whole afternoon to the composition of thedraft of this letter; for which great purpose, Agnes relinquished herdesk to me.
-- Whensome white-headed billows thundered on, and dashed themselves 727to pieces before they reached the land, every fragment of the latewhole seemed possessed by the full might of its wrath, rushing tobe gathered to the composition of another monster.
-- Emma, my love,' said Mr. Micawber, clearinghis throat in his magnificent way, 'my friend Mr. Thomas Traddlesis so obliging as to solicit, in my ear, that he should have theprivilege of ordering the ingredients necessary to the composition 742of a moderate portion of that Beverage which is peculiarlyassociated, in our minds, with the Roast Beef of Old England.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Hall was a queer place, I thought, with higher pews in it than a church,--and with people hanging over the pews looking on,--and with mighty Justices (one with a powdered head) leaning back in chairs, with folded arms, or taking snuff, or going to sleep, or writing, or reading the newspapers,--and with some shining black portraits on the walls, which my unartistic eye regarded as a composition of hardbake and sticking-plaster.
-- Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul--still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of the poetry.
-- ***I sold all I had, and put aside as much as I could, for a composition with my creditors,--who gave me ample time to pay them in full,--and I went out and joined Herbert.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- The other was, by a certain composition of gums, minerals, and vegetables, outwardly applied, to prevent the growth of wool upon two young lambs; and he hoped, in a reason-able time to propagate the breed of naked sheep, all over the kingdom.
-- The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby, having got it into his explosive composition that Mrs. Sparsit was a highly superior woman to perceive that he had that general cross upon him in his deserts (for he had not yet settled what it was), and further that Louisa would have objected to her as a frequent visitor if it had comported with his greatness that she should object to anything he chose to do, resolved not to lose sight of Mrs. Sparsit easily.
-- In a preposterous coat, like a beadle's, with cuffs and flaps exaggerated to an unspeakable extent; in an immense waistcoat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes, and a mad cocked hat; with nothing fitting him, and everything of coarse material, moth-eaten and full of holes; with seams in his black face, where fear and heat had started through the greasy composition daubed all over it; anything so grimly, detestably, ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was.
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：
-- There were books about Bolshevist Russia, books of travel, a volume about the atom and the electron, another about the composition of the earth's core, and the causes of earthquakes: then a few novels: then three books on India.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said all this, and everything else, as coldly as a woman of snow; quite forgetting the sisters except at odd times, and apparently addressing some abstraction of Society; for whose behoof, too, she occasionally arranged her dress, or the composition of her figure upon the ottoman.
-- This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady-mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Miss Fanny in the Foreground.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that his mind was not in working order yet, and his ideas needed clarifying, for of-ten in the middle of a plaintive strain, he would find himself humming a dancing tune that vividly recalled the Christ-mas ball at Nice, especially the stout Frenchman, and put an effectual stop to tragic composition for the time being.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more-- except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floors were of brightly coloured tiles, the walls a composition of rich, dark, polished wood, which reflected the light, and coloured stucco-work, which gave the place a very sumptuous appearance.
-- Her nervous composition responded to certain strains, much as certain strings of a harp vibrate when a corresponding key of a piano is struck.
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