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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer had none of these at his disposal, but he knew that, in Bohemia especially, sulphuric acid is manufactured by very simple means, which have also the advantage of producing it to a superior degree of concentration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When my poor husband, her dear father, was alive, if he had ever ventured a cross word to me, I'd have ' The good old lady did not finish the sentence, but she twisted off the head of a shrimp with a vindictiveness which seemed to imply that the action was in some degree a substitute for words.
-- Mr Swiveller heard this account with a degree of admiration not altogether consistent with the project in which he had just concurred, but his friend attached very little importance to his behavior in this respect, probably because he knew that he had influence sufficient to control Richard Swiveller's proceedings in this or any other matter, whenever he deemed it necessary, for the advancement of his own purposes, to exert it.
-- But at last, as he was sitting upon the box thinking about giants' castles, and princesses tied up to pegs by the hair of their heads, and dragons bursting out from behind gates, and other incidents of the like nature, common in story-books to youths of low degree on their first visit to strange houses, the door was gently opened, and a little servant-girl, very tidy, modest, and demure, but very pretty too, appeared.
-- Mrs Jiniwin being very fond of cards was carefully excluded by her son-in-law from any participation in the game, and had assigned to her the duty of occasionally replenishing the glasses from the case-bottle; Mr Quilp from that moment keeping one eye constantly upon her, lest she should by any means procure a taste of the same, and thereby tantalising the wretched old lady (who was as much attached to the case-bottle as the cards) in a double degree and most ingenious manner.
-- The single gentleman, however, was not in the slightest degree affected by this circumstance, but proceeded with perfect composure to unwind the shawl which was tied round his neck, and then to pull off his boots.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- [Footnote D: The Russian thou cannot be rendered into English with any degree of accuracy.
-- Then came the names of the witnesses, the signature and deduction of the physician, from which it appeared that the changes found in the stomach, intestines and kidneys justified the conclusion "to a large degree probable" that the death of Smelkoff was due to poison taken into the stomach with a quantity of wine.
-- The sense of their unnatural and false position, of which they were to a greater or less degree cognizant, while sitting in the court-room, passed away as soon as they entered their room and lighted their cigarettes, and, with a feeling of relief, they seated themselves and immediately started an animated conversation.
-- So that his family life turned out to be "not the thing, you know," in still greater degree than his service or the Court appointment.
-- Yes, yes, that is so," thought Nekhludoff, experiencing the double pleasure of a cool breeze after the intolerable heat, and the consciousness of having reached the highest degree of lucidity in the question which had so long occupied him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upperworld people for the dark.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some had not then attained a sufficient degree of maturity; and their thick skin covered a white but rather fibrous pulp.
-- On the contrary, Captain Nemo went himself to test the temperature in the depths of the sea, and his thermometer, placed in communication with the different sheets of water, gave him the required degree immediately and accurately.
-- I felt lightened of the load which had oppressed me, and was able to return with some degree of calmness to my accustomed work.
-- We had advanced one degree more in this Antarctic region.
-- "Certainly," said I, carried away by the Captain's reasoning; "if the surface of the sea is solidified by the ice, the lower depths are free by the Providential law which has placed the maximum of density of the waters of the ocean one degree higher than freezing-point; and, if I am not mistaken, the portion of this iceberg which is above the water is as one to four to that which is below."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made herself beautiful, she strove so hard to come to that degree of beauty and advantage, when he should be convinced.
-- Let that work perfectly, let it produce a sufficiency of everything, let every man be given a rational portion, greater or less according to his functional degree or magnitude, and then, provision made, let the devil supervene, let every man look after his own amusements and appetites, so long as he interfered with nobody.
-- I shall be among people who don't own things and who haven't got a home and a domestic servant in the background, who haven't got a standing and a status and a degree and a circle of friends of the same.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling to manifestations of mutual kindliness.
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