magnitude是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大小; 重要性; 量级，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No crime of any magnitude dating from the middle or end of February was known to have occurred.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that the import of his speech was of such magnitude that every word of it would have weight.
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：
-- Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As these games were very silently conducted, notwithstanding the magnitude of the interests involved, Mr Swiveller began to think that on those evenings when Mr and Miss Brass were out (and they often went out now) he heard a kind of snorting or hard-breathing sound in the direction of the door, which it occurred to him, after some reflection, must proceed from the small servant, who always had a cold from damp living.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.
-- That the latter was of the smallest magnitude compatible with its existence at all, Boldwood, of course, did not know.
-- said Cainy, looking from one to the other with great uneasiness at the spiritual magnitude of the position.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time he stood thus, literally aghast at the magnitude of his discovery.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an exceedingly long lay that, indeed; and though from the magnitude of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet the slightest consideration will show that though seven hundred and seventy-seven is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make a teenth of it, you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and seventy-seventh part of a farthing is a good deal less than seven hundred and seventy-seven gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.
-- First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all, both small and large.
-- It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian, a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than Moby Dick.
-- And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
-- Far back on the side of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if you narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would fancy to be a young colt's eye; so out of all proportion is it to the magnitude of the head.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wondered at the magnitude of this life and at the importance of knowing much in order to do anything in it at all.
-- Her spirits were materially reduced, owing to the newly restored sense of magnitude of the great interests and the insignificance of her claims upon society, such as she understood them to be.
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