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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To find the extremity of the 37th degree of latitude, they would have required to proceed as far as the Bay of Carnero, twenty miles further.
-- "There is the pass of Antuco, on the slope of the volcano, in latitude, 37 degrees 30' , or, in other words, only half a degree out of our way."
-- CHAPTER XVII A SERIOUS NECESSITYTHE Argentine Pampas extend from the thirty-fourth to the fortieth degree of southern latitude.
-- "And yet," he said, "this thirty-seventh degree of latitude is not a mere figure, and that it applies to the shipwreck or captivity of Harry Grant, is no mere guess or supposition.
-- On arriving at Cape Pilares he had found the winds dead against him, and therefore made for the south, coasting along the Desolation Isle, and after going as far as the sixty-seventh degree southern latitude, had doubled Cape Horn, passed by Terra del Fuego and the Straits of Lemaire, keeping close to the Patagonian shore.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she accepted this money it was not to be considered as indem-nification for her misfortune as a young girl, which had not been in any degree her own fault, but merely as compensa-tion for her ruined life.
-- 'I was saying just now, before you came in, prince, that there has been nothing national up to now, about our lib-eralism, and nothing the liberals do, or have done, is in the least degree national.
-- Today, I assure you, I shall not oppose in the slightest degree any suggestions it may please you to make.'
-- But for all this, the question remains, what are the novelists to do with commonplace people, and how are they to be presented to the reader in such a form as to be in the least degree interesting?
-- It was true enough that he was sometimes naive to a degree in his curiosity; but he was also an excessively cunning gentleman, and the prince was almost converting him into an enemy by his re-peated rebuffs.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The person of this individual was to the last degree un-gainly, without being in any particular manner deformed.
-- * The scene of this tale was in the 42d degree of latitude, where the twilight is never of long continuation.
-- 'That was easy to see,' added the scout, in no degree con-scious of having exhibited any extraordinary sagacity; 'and a very different matter it was from a waddling horse!It then struck me the Mingoes would push for this spring, for the knaves well know the vartue of its waters!'
-- Bleak and black hills lay on every side of them, compensating in some degree for the additional toil of the march by the sense of security they imparted.
-- A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar hogsheads!and then your twopenny marquisates.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
-- Though the night was dark and dismal, yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert shared in some degree the sailor's feelings.
-- Cyrus Harding concluded, therefore, that Lincoln Island was situated on the thirty-seventh degree of the southern latitude, or taking into consideration through the imperfection of the performance, an error of five degrees, that it must be situated between the thirty-fifth and the fortieth parallel.
-- Now the sun, in its apparent movement round the earth, traverses one degree in four minutes, or fifteen degrees an hour.
-- Then, since Washington is 77脗掳 3' 11" as much as to say seventy-seven degrees counted from the meridian of Greenwich which the Americans take for their starting-point for longitudes concurrently with the English it followed that the island must be situated seventy-seven and seventy-five degrees west of the meridian of Greenwich, that is to say, on the hundred and fifty- second degree of west longitude.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He drew up his chair and modulated his voice to such a degree that what he said seemed wholly confidential.
-- Give one degree time to act before you start another.
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