degree是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 程度； 度数； 学位； 等级，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll take a high degree at college, Steerforth,' said I, 'if you havenot done so already; and they will have good reason to be proud ofyou.'
-- 'No,' returned Steerforth, 'the advocates are civilians-men who have taken a doctor's degree at college- which is the firstreason of my knowing anything about it.
-- I don't think I had any definite ideawhere Dora came from or in what degree she was related to ahigher order of beings; but I am quite sure I should have scoutedthe notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady,with indignation and contempt.
-- 'But I am not prepared,' he went on, 'to deny- perhaps I may havebeen, without knowing it, in some degree prepared to admit- that Imay have unwittingly ensnared that lady into an unhappymarriage.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.
-- A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other.
-- I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility.'
-- 'I wonder he did not remember the book' was all Har-riet's answer, and spoken with a degree of grave displeasure which Emma thought might be safely left to itself.
-- She played and sang; and drew in almost every style; but steadiness had always been wanting; and in nothing had she approached the degree of excellence which she would have been glad to command, and ought not to have failed of.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
-- He had made a toilet of a nicely-adjusted kind of a nature between the carefully neat and the carelessly ornate of a degree between fine-market-day and wet-Sunday selection.
-- "I have a nice snug little farm," said Gabriel, with half a degree less assurance than when he had seized her hand.
-- The conversation (which seemed to have been concerning the origin of the fire) immediately ceased, and every one ocularly criticised him to the degree expressed by contracting the flesh of their foreheads and looking at him with narrowed eyelids, as if he had been a light too strong for their sight.
-- The maltster, being now pacified, was even generous enough to voluntarily disparage in a slight degree the virtue of having lived a great many years, by mentioning that the cup they were drinking out of was three years older than he.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The diorama, a recent invention, which carried an optical illusion a degree further than panoramas, had given rise to a mania among art students for ending every word with _rama_.
-- On the one hand you see a father who has sacrificed himself to his son, and his daughter-in-law shows him the last degree of insolence.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
-- I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
-- I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled.
-- They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and ar-range in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
-- Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being the least analytic ofpeople, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteenyears of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.
-- He was the one who decided I should havea larger allowance when I was fifteen, and he insisted that I should go to Harvard for my senior year, when UncleHenry wanted me to take my degree at the University.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister "went on the Rampage," in a more alarming degree than at any previous period.
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