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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sold them to the English Government; but when the surveyor came to measure the purchased land, the chief Kingi protested, and by the month of March he had made the six hundred acres in question into a fortified camp, surrounded with high palisades.
-- What a night he and his companions passed!Who could picture their agonies or measure their sufferings?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now for fifteen years at least I have studied the Apocalypse, and she agrees with me in thinking that the present is the epoch represented by the third horse, the black one whose rider holds a measure in his hand.
-- It seems to me that everything is ruled by mea-sure in our century; all men are clamouring for their rights; 'a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of bar-ley for a penny.'
-- He had far outshot the measure of joy and emotion consistent with the occasion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle.
-- The god of war deals out like measure to all, and the slayer may yet be slain.'
-- I married her to Peleus, who is above measure dear to the immortals; you gods came all of you to her wedding; you feasted along with them yourself and brought your lyre false, and fond of low company, that you have ever been.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had paused half way through the hatchway, looking back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ug-liness of this black-faced creature.
-- Presently he returned with a small measure containing a dark liquid.
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：
-- It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they fol-lowed the route of the column; a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Ca-nadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
-- Remember, Cora, that on your presence of mind and ingenuity, even your life, as well as that of Alice, may in some measure depend.'
-- 'Has your excellency found our defense so feeble as to be-lieve the measure necessary?'
-- The experiment in some measure succeeded, though far too many suffered their unloaded muskets to be torn from their hands, in the vain hope of appeasing the savages.
-- Left now in a measure to themselves, the Mohicans, whose time had been so much devoted to the interests of others, seized the moment to devote some attention to themselves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mountain, situated about six miles to the northwest, appeared to him to measure 3,500 feet above the level of the sea.
-- On its left side it did not measure more than thirty feet in height and breadth, but on the right it was enormous, and its vaulted roof rose to a height of more than eighty feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, Mr Quilp put his hat on and took himself off, and Mrs Quilp, who was afflicted beyond measure by the recollection of the part she had just acted, shut herself up in her chamber, and smothering her head in the bed-clothes bemoaned her fault more bitterly than many less tender-hearted persons would have mourned a much greater offence; for, in the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself to a great variety of circumstances.
-- retorted Quilp; 'you creep, you dog, you crawl, you measure distance like a worm.
-- With less and less of hope or strength, as they went on, but with an undiminished resolution not to betray by any word or sigh her sinking state, so long as she had energy to move, the child, throughout the remainder of that hard day, compelled herself to proceed: not even stopping to rest as frequently as usual, to compensate in some measure for the tardy pace at which she was obliged to walk.
-- 'Why, instead of my friend's bursting into tears when he knew who Fred was, embracing him kindly, and telling him that he was his grandfather, or his grandmother in disguise (which we fully expected), he flew into a tremendous passion; called him all manner of names; said it was in a great measure his fault that little Nell and the old gentleman had ever been brought to poverty; didn't hint at our taking anything to drink; and and in short rather turned us out of the room than otherwise.'
-- And this, it must be observed, or the illustration would be incomplete, although in a business point of view she had the strongest sympathy with Mr Sampson, and would have been beyond measure indignant if he had thwarted their client in any one respect.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact that he had in a measure mollified Carrie was a source of satisfaction to Hurstwood, but it furnished only the most temporary relief.
-- Once more the plague of poverty galled her, but now she forgot in a measure her own troubles so far as to forget Hurstwood.
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