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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not get over my appearance, and was in the last degree confounded.
-- In Mrs. Brandley's house and out of Mrs. Brandley's house, I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me.
-- No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favored; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
-- He asked, 'What time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
-- lthough I cannot say that I was ill treated in this island, Ayet I must confess I thought myself too much neglect-ed, not without some degree of contempt; for neither prince nor people appeared to be curious in any part of knowledge, except mathematics and music, wherein I was far their infe-rior, and upon that account very little regarded.
-- I had obtained, by hard study, a good degree of knowl-216 Gulliver's Travelsedge in their language: I was weary of being confined to an island where I received so little countenance, and resolved to leave it with the first opportunity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed, by this condensed epitome of the whole Coketown question.
-- If, in remembrance of the pains bestowed upon you there, you can persuade yourself in any degree to disregard your present interest and release my son, I entreat and pray you to give him the benefit of that remembrance.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Follow the direction of one of its innumerable fjords or arms of the sea, and what do you see below the sixty-fifth degree of latitude?"
-- "But is it not well-known that heat increases one degree for every seventy feet you descend into the earth?
-- My lessons lasted five days, and at the end of that period, I ascended blithely enough, and found myself able to look down into the depths below without even winking, and with some degree of pleasure.
-- Too hot by half, if the degree of heat was to ascend so high--in which case we should certainly be cooked--not enough, if we wanted to ascertain the exact temperature of springs or metal in a state of fusion.
-- According to the most exact observations, the augmentation of the temperature of the interior of the earth is one degree for every hundred feet.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One doubts if they exist to any startling degree even is oneself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor's friend was in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, red-facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy; the doctor in the comparative hoarser, puffier, more red-faced, more all-fourey, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier.
-- Young Barnacle was in the last degree amazed and disconcerted at sight of Arthur, and had murmured involuntarily, 'Look here!upon my soul, you know!'
-- It was probably owing to this fortification of the natural strength of his constitution with so much exposure to the air, and the salt sea, that Mr Sparkler did not pine outwardly; but, whatever the cause, he was so far from having any prospect of moving his mistress by a languishing state of health, that he grew bluffer every day, and that peculiarity in his appearance of seeming rather a swelled boy than a young man, became developed to an extraordinary degree of ruddy puffiness.
-- 'He gave us Strephon last night to that degree that Plornish gets up and makes him this speech across the table.
-- I don't mean to say that any objection from you, Amy, is likely to be of the smallest effect, or that I think you likely to make it with any degree of firmness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A letter came from Aunt Carrol, and Mrs. March's face was illuminated to such a degree when she read it that Jo and Beth, who were with her, demanded what the glad tiding were.
-- So the only way in which he could express his rapture was to look at her, with an ex-pression which glorified his face to such a degree that there actually seemed to be little rainbows in the drops that spar-kled on his beard.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage, he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on.
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