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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
-- But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his prop-erties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus, while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure ofquiet to her disturbed mind.
-- The hot nights brought a measure of quiet but it was a sinister quiet.
-- When she had finished it, a measure of strength came back to her and with the strength came again the pricking offear.
-- Prissy had recovered her breath and a small measure of control but her eyes still rolled.
-- "Soun' ter me lak her bag full an' she need milkin' bad," said Prissy, regaining some measure of control.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem's respected name.
-- For although Mr. Trabb had my measure already, and had previously been quite contented with it, he said apologetically that it "wouldn't do under existing circumstances, sir,--wouldn't do at all."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six hundred beds of the com-mon measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four dou-ble: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
-- It is al-leged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution; but, however this be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the adminis-tration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe; and particularly that his majesty's imperial heels are lower at least by a drurr than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).
-- The sempstresses took my measure as I lay on the ground, one standing at my neck, and another at my mid-leg, with a strong cord extended, that each held by the end, while a third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long.
-- That if his majesty, in consid-eration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived, that by this expedient justice might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honour to be his counsellors.
-- Her majesty, and those who attended her, were beyond measure delighted with my demeanour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- In the measure that he would not allow his own youth to have been attended by a single favourable circumstance, he brightened Mrs. Sparsit's juvenile career with every possible advantage, and showered waggon-loads of early roses all over that lady's path.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The contracted muscles of my throat relaxed--and the inflammation of my lips in some measure subsided.
-- I fancy that the worthy Professor in some measure shares my notions, if not my fears, for, after an attentive examination of the crowbar, he cast his eyes rapidly over the mighty and mysterious ocean.
-- [4] Measure the angle for yourselves, and you will find that it is just ninety degrees.
-- Could he, by any conceivable means, measure the thickness of the crust of the earth suspended above our heads?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the hour approached, its changes of measure made it more and more exasperating.
-- If Little Dorrit were beyond measure perplexed by this curious conduct on the part of her new acquaintance, and by finding herself involved in this singular treaty, her perplexity was not diminished by ensuing circumstances.
-- To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.
-- A very small measure will overset him; he may be bowled off his unsteady legs with a half-pint pot.
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