Compose

(verb.) put together out of existing material; 'compile a list'.

(verb.) write music; 'Beethoven composed nine symphonies'.

(verb.) calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; 'She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult'.

(verb.) form the substance of; 'Greed and ambition composed his personality'.

奥罗拉编辑

• We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Let me compose myself, let me think, if I can. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Try to compose yourself, or you will make me alter my opinion of you. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mrs. Cluppins,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, 'pray compose yourself, ma'am. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was the best way I could have taken to compose her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I walked to the window to compose myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You must compose yourself,' said the doctor supporting her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Although carbon dioxide is very injurious to health, both of the substances of which it is composed are necessary to life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She was soon in the room, and recommended that Arthur, whom she had left calm and composed, should not be visited that night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The surgeon gave him a composing draught, and ordered us to leave him undisturbed. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I had caused a printer's composing case to be set up with the idea that if we could get editors and publishers in to see it, we should show them the advantages of the electric light. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Immediately some of the gentlemen composing that body wrote out a call for a meeting and had it published in their papers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At Palmer's I was employed in composing for the second edition of Woollaston's Religion of Nature. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The necessity of composing her appearance so that it should attract no special notice in the streets, was another relief. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• WilliaMs. Generals Logan and Blair commanded the two corps composing the right wing. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was impossible to put Mr. Franklin off with the excuse of the Sergeant being in my room, composing his mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• After which he composes himself for an easy ride and takes note of the fittings of the carriage in case he should ever find such knowledge useful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mrs. Chadband composes herself grimly by the fire and warms her knees, finding that sensation favourable to the reception of eloquence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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