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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three great regions form the sub-titles of the three books which compose the story.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the frankness and boldness of youth, he not only then spoke of the injustice of private ownership of land; not only did he compose theses in the university on the subject, but he actually distributed among the peasants the few hundred acres of land left him by his father, not desiring to own land contrary to his convictions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So it is this sodium that I extract from the sea-water, and of which I compose my ingredients.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, compose yourself now, and don't worry Aunt with your new ideas.'
-- As Goethe, when he had a joy or a grief, put it into a song, so Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow in music, and to compose a Requiem which should harrow up Jo's soul and melt the heart of every hearer.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews; but cut into it, and you find that three distinct strata compose it: upper, middle, and lower.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly.
-- 'You must compose yourself,' said the doctor supporting her.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried, however, to compose herself to answer him with patience, when he should have done.
-- She retreated from the window, fearful of being seen; and as she walked up and down the room, endeavouring to compose herself, saw such looks of inquiring surprise in her uncle and aunt as made everything worse.
-- She wanted to ascertain the feelings of each of her visitors; she wanted to compose her own, and to make herself agreeable to all; and in the latter object, where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavoured to give pleasure were prepossessed in her favour.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, even though I knew it was the parrot, and that indeed it could be nobody else, it was a good while before I could compose myself.
-- I looked, I thought, like Saul, who complained not only that the Philistines were upon him, but that God had for-saken him; for I did not now take due ways to compose my mind, by crying to God in my distress, and resting upon His providence, as I had done before, for my defence and deliverance; which, if I had done, I had at least been more cheerfully supported under this new surprise, and perhaps carried through it with more resolution.
-- All this time the poor man was in as great an ecstasy as I, only not under any surprise as I was; and he said a thousand kind and tender things to me, to compose and bring me to myself; but such was the flood of joy in my breast, that it put all my spirits into confu-sion: at last it broke out into tears, and in a little while after I recovered my speech; I then took my turn, and embraced him as my deliverer, and we rejoiced together.
-- I was now master, all on a sudden, of above five thousand pounds sterling in money, and had an estate, as I might well call it, in the Brazils, of above a thousand pounds a year, as sure as an estate of lands in England: and, in a word, I was in a condition which I scarce knew how to understand, or how to compose myself for the enjoyment of it.
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