compatible是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可和谐共存的; 兼容的，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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gamut received his pitch-pipe with as strong an expres-sion of pleasure as he believed compatible with the grave functions he exercised.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin returned to New York with the not very compatible plans of being the best-dressed golfer in Greenwich and of cooking beef-stew with Terry at Birdies' Rest.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never been quite well since the time of their daughter's marriage; and till she should have completely re-covered her usual strength, they must forbid her engaging in duties, which, so far from being compatible with a weak-ened frame and varying spirits, seemed, under the most favourable circumstances, to require something more than human perfection of body and mind to be discharged with tolerable comfort.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the latter was of the smallest magnitude compatible with its existence at all, Boldwood, of course, did not know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apart from such a habit standing in the way of that graceful equanimity of surface which is so expressive of good breeding, it hardly seems compatible with refinement of mind.
-- This poetical heightening of the parlour consisted in the wall being painted to represent the exterior of a thatched cottage; the artist having introduced (in as effective a manner as he found compatible with their highly disproportionate dimensions) the real door and window.
-- But, I mistaken on a point that has caused me more smart in my breast than a flight of savages' arrows could have done!I mistaken on a point that almost sent me into my grave, as I sometimes wished it would, if the grave could only have been made compatible with the tobacco-business and father and mother's feelings!I mistaken on a point that, even at the present moment, makes me take out my pocket-handkerchief like a great girl, as people say: though I am sure I don't know why a great girl should be a term of reproach, for every rightly constituted male mind loves 'em great and small.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I,' said Mr. Collins, 'were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very inno-cent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman.
-- She could not bear such suspense; and hastily seizing a sheet of paper, wrote a short letter to her aunt, to request an explanation of what Lydia had dropt, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been intended.
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