measure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 量度, 分量, 尺寸, 量具, 行动, 步骤，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A wild-looking woman, whom even in his agitation, Mr. Lorry observed to be all of a red colour, and to have red hair, and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight-fitting fashion, and to have on her head a most wonderful bon-net like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese, came running into the room in advance of the inn servants, and soon settled the ques-tion of his detachment from the poor young lady, by laying a brawny hand upon his chest, and sending him flying back against the nearest wall.
-- Having purchased a few small articles of grocery, and a measure of oil for the lamp, Miss Pross bethought her-self of the wine they wanted.
-- As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And going once again over the conditions inseparable from a duel, a divorce, a separation, and once again rejecting them, Alexey Alexandrovitch felt convinced that there was only one solution,--to keep her with him, concealing what had happened from the world, and using every measure in his power to break off the intrigue, and still more--though this he did not admit to himself--to punish her.
-- Stremov, carrying with him several members, went over to Alexey Alexandrovitch's side, and not contenting himself with warmly defending the measure proposed by Karenin, proposed other more extreme measures in the same direction.
-- He saw nothing impossible and inconceivable in the idea that death, though existing for unbelievers, did not exist for him, and that, as he was possessed of the most perfect faith, of the measure of which he was himself the judge, therefore there was no sin in his soul, and he was experiencing complete salvation here on earth.
-- The rye, for the price of which he had so long held out, had been sold for fifty kopecks a measure cheaper than it had been fetching a month ago.
-- She looked at the lower part of the carriages, at the screws and chains and the tall cast-iron wheel of the first carriage slowly moving up, and trying to measure the middle between the front and back wheels, and the very minute when that middle point would be opposite her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, when one of you scientific sharks can take the genius of a Ben Jonson and measure it with a yardstick, then I'll admit that we literary chaps, with our doubtless absurd belief in beauty and loyalty and the world o' dreams, are off on the wrong track!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you taken the measure of your sacrifice, both of you?
-- 'There's a measure in all things,' Luzhin went on super-ciliously.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As I have got my breath now, I think I'll measure thisyoung scholar.
-- While he was so engaged, he asked me what I wouldtake with it; and on my replying 'Half a pint of sherry,' thought it afavourable opportunity, I am afraid, to extract that measure ofwine from the stale leavings at the bottoms of several smalldecanters.
-- 'I am bound to state to you,' he said, with an official air, 'that thebusiness habits, and the prudent suggestions, of Mrs. Micawber,have in a great measure conduced to this result.
-- And now alast word, dearest and best of friends!The cause of the late changein you, which I have seen with so much pain and sorrow, and havesometimes referred to my old apprehension- at other times tolingering suppositions nearer to the truth- has been made clear to-night; and by an accident I have also come to know, to-night, thefull measure of your noble trust in me, even un- der that mistake.
-- Always with her, here comes Peggotty, my good old nurse,likewise in spectacles, accustomed to do needlework at night veryclose to the lamp, but never sitting down to it without a bit of wax-candle, a yard measure in a little house, and a work-box with apicture of St. Paul's upon the lid.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Used to measure his money in half-pint cups.
-- I hate taking my own measure so plain, but, upon my life, your provoking ways make a man say what he wouldn't dream of at other times!I own to being rather interfering.
-- Troy rebounded like a ball, and was about to make a dash at the farmer; but he checked himself, saying lightly "It is not worth while to measure my strength with you.
-- She must tread her giddy distracting measure to its last note, as she had begun it.
-- A morning mist hung over it now a fulsome yet magnificent silvery veil, full of light from the sun, yet semi-opaque the hedge behind it being in some measure hidden by its hazy luminousness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Duchess gave Eugene one of those insolent glances that measure a man from head to foot, and leave him crushed and annihilated.
-- You shall sound the depths of corruption in woman; you shall measure the extent of man's pitiful vanity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had in some measure re-covered, I removed him to my own cabin and attended on him as much as my duty would permit.
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