Composition

(noun.) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; 'he envied the composition of their faculty'.

(noun.) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; 'harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art'.

(noun.) an essay (especially one written as an assignment); 'he got an A on his composition'.

(noun.) a mixture of ingredients.

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• Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• However the parts may differ in shape or size, their structure and composition are in general the same. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The latest improvement in chemical matches is the Vesta, which consists of small wax, or stearine tapers, with an igniting composition at the end, consisting of chlorate of potass and phosphorus. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Nor was Mrs. Weller behind-hand in doing justice to the composition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Whatever marks the place of its existence either must be extended, or must be a mathematical point, without parts or composition. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It seems natural to conclude from this, that water and air were ingredients in their original composition; for men cannot make new matter of any kind. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There were no really new _motifs_ in the composition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I will not ask your opinion of it as a composition, said Edward. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Rent, it is to be observed, therefore, enters into the composition of the price of commodities in a different way from wages and profit. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Some artists prefer to work directly on the stone with a camel's hair pencil, or with a composition called lithographic chalk. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well; that is, the rules and trick of composition are oftener an object of study. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Where is the author who can be indifferent to the genuine unhackneyed praise bestowed on his own composition? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Please to excuse the faults of this composition--my talking so much of myself, and being too familiar, I am afraid, with you. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In the early part of the Nineteenth Century there were but few improvements in either the composition or manufacture of gunpowder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• On scrutiny they proved to be French compositions, written in a hand peculiar but compact, and exquisitely clean and clear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And again: Nothing can be more perfectly and beautifully adapted to its object than most of the moral compositions of Dr. Franklin. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But he fed that furnace and he melted his different compositions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• She kept his copy-books, his drawings, and compositions, and showed them about in her little circle as if they were miracles of genius. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Inventions in the field of medicine consist chiefly in those innumerable compositions and compounds which have resulted from chemical discoveries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We have in vain pored over the leaves of Mr. Pickwick's note-book, in the hope of meeting with a general summary of these beautiful compositions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He turned his attention afterwards to music; and it was in his attempts to devise some means of printing his compositions economically that he chanced to discover the art of Lithography. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Some of the later books are frankly post-captivity compositions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One of the most interesting and informing of these prehistoric compositions of the Aryans survives in the Greek _Iliad_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Many substitutes in the form of compositions of various ingredients have been devised and patented, but no real substitute for nature’s product has yet been found. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal, must be the fairest of compositions and cannot be compounded of many elements? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is true, that such slight compositions might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr Oldbuck. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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