compose是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 组成, 构成, 创作, 排字, 使安静，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 371 'La Force!Lucie, my child, if ever you were brave and ser-viceable in your life and you were always both you will compose yourself now, to do exactly as I bid you; for more depends upon it than you can think, or I can say.
-- I released her arms, and called the woman to assist me to compose her figure and the dress she had to.
-- Nevertheless, it was not easy, with the face of his beloved wife fresh before him, to compose his mind to what it must bear.
-- 'Whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be,' said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes and compose herself, 'I have no doubt it is best that Mrs. Cruncher should have it entirely under her own superintendence. O my poor dar-lings!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the more he tried to compose himself, the more breathless he found himself.
-- They compose an ardent epistle, a declaration in fact, and they carry the letter upstairs themselves, so as to elucidate whatever might appear not perfectly intelligible in the letter."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went upon the stage, and took his place beside the rest who were to compose the base of the Car of Juggernaut.
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD"From ocean to ocean" so say the Americans; and these four words compose the general designation of the "great trunk line" which crosses the entire width of the United States.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the more he asked Mrs. Micawber to look up, the more she fixed 167her eyes on nothing; and the more he asked her to compose herself,the more she wouldn't.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elton must compose his joyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour.
-- Time did not compose her.
-- 'She could not compose herself Mr. Woodhouse would be alarmed she had better go;' with most ready encouragement from her friend, therefore, she passed off through another door and the moment she was gone, this was the spontaneous burst of Emma's feelings: 'Oh God!that I had never seen her!'
-- The hasty engagement she had entered into with that woman Here, my dear madam, I was obliged to leave off abruptly, to recollect and compose myself. I have been walking over the country, and am now, I hope, rational enough to make the rest of my letter what it ought to be. It is, in fact, a most mortifying retrospect for me.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
-- 'Compose yourself,' said Clerval, who observed my change of colour, 'I will not mention it if it agitates you; but your father and cousin would be very happy if they received a letter from you in your own handwriting.
-- I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And pray compose yourself."
-- She sat down on the bottom step of the stairs and tried to compose herself, wondering again how yesterday's battlehad gone, wondering how today's fighting was going.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made a strong attempt to compose herself, and stammered that he was as punctual as ever.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, for ex-ample, if I should say, in a letter to a friend, 'Our brother Tom has just got the piles,' a skilful decipherer would dis-240 Gulliver's Travelscover, that the same letters which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words, 'Resist -, a plot is brought home The tour.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the matters which compose the globe are in a state of incandescence; even gold, platinum, and the hardest rocks are in a state of fusion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do what he could to compose his face, he could not convey so much of an ordinary expression into it, but that the moment she saw it she dropped her work, and cried, 'Mr Clennam!What's the matter?'
-- 'Compose yourself, sir,' said Clennam, 'and take a little time to think.
-- Little Dorrit was deeply anxious that he should lie down to compose himself.
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