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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to its height, Ned Land, in spite of his own great height, could not measure it.
-- This engine-room, clearly lighted, did not measure less than sixty-five feet in length.
-- I went up on to the platform just as the second lieutenant was taking the measure of the horary angles, and waited, according to habit till the daily phrase was said.
-- "Because then the orb of day described such lengthened curves that it is difficult to measure exactly its height above the horizon, and grave errors may be made with instruments."
-- This odd animal, in a medium conductor like water, strikes fish at several yards' distance, so great is the power of its electric organ, the two principal surfaces of which do not measure less than twenty-seven square feet.
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：
-- "We'll measure it this way, Rupert you go down there ""Can't I do it for you," said Gerald, coming to take the end of the tape.
-- However, she suddenly began, in a laughing, teasing voice:"My love is a high-born lady "Gudrun, looking as if some invisible chain weighed on her hands and feet, began slowly to dance in the eurythmic manner, pulsing and fluttering rhythmically with her feet, making slower, regular gestures with her hands and arms, now spreading her arms wide, now raising them above her head, now flinging them softly apart, and lifting her face, her feet all the time beating and running to the measure of the song, as if it were some strange incantation, her white, rapt form drifting here and there in a strange impulsive rhapsody, seeming to be lifted on a breeze of incantation, shuddering with strange little runs.
-- How stupid anthropomorphism is!Gudrun is really impudent, insolent, making herself the measure of everything, making everything come down to human standards.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got through, and the doctor affirmed it was in a great measure owing to me, and praised me for my care.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some measure of severity is necessary.
-- Besides his wish to see Mariette again, he also wished, as he thought, to measure himself against that world lately so near, but now so strange to him.
-- Nekhludoff crossed the river to a town, and his driver took him to a hotel, where, notwithstanding the poor appointments, he found a measure of comfort entirely wanting in the inns of his stopping places.
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