combine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 联合; 连结; n. 集团, 联合企业，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- who combine presentable personalities with first- rate achievement, and if you'll just get over some of your abruptness and your unwillingness to appreciate big executives and charming women (because, thank God, you do wear your clothes well-- when you take the trouble!)
-- At home dinner he never cared what he ate (though he did care what he drank), which at Penrith Lodge was desirable, in view of Leora's efforts to combine the views of Wheatsylvania with the standards of West Indian servants and the absence of daily deliveries.
-- How he was to combine a town house and a Greenwich castle with flannel-shirt collaboration at Birdies' Rest he had not quite planned, but he was not going to be disloyal.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, withWilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we had passed the village and the church and the churchyard, and were out on the marshes and began to see the sails of the ships as they sailed on, I began to combine Miss Havisham and Estella with the prospect, in my usual way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do what you like under the rose, but don't give a sign of what you're about; or half a hundred of 'em will combine together and get this fellow who has bolted, out of reach for good.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage.
-- Now, as I had a notion to combine the useful and the agreeable, my favorite pastime was birds' nesting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ingenious culprit was a man of great modesty and good sense; and, though a plain man, had been too much accustomed to combine what was original and daring in conception with what was patient and minute in execution, to be by any means an ordinary man.
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