Company

(noun.) an institution created to conduct business; 'he only invests in large well-established companies'; 'he started the company in his garage'.

(noun.) a unit of firefighters including their equipment; 'a hook-and-ladder company'.

(noun.) a social gathering of guests or companions; 'the house was filled with company when I arrived'.

(noun.) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); 'the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel'.

(noun.) small military unit; usually two or three platoons.

(noun.) the state of being with someone; 'he missed their company'; 'he enjoyed the society of his friends'.

(verb.) be a companion to somebody.

校对:奥利弗

• I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There is _one_ person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They said little more; but were company to one another in silently pursuing the same subjects, and did not part until midnight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, was launched Oct. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Will you promise to sit up with me to bear me company? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Didn't Miss Crawley remark it, who has lived in the best company in Europe? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the 22d Colonel Rodney Mason surrendered Clarksville with six companies of his regiment. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mark for troops on foot by companies, like this, see? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Other great companies in different parts of the country soon followed with the same general system. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When within a square of the plaza this small command, ten companies in all, was brought to a halt. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They proved of use, and the same man started a service among the express companies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

整理:华莱士