scale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 鳞, 鳞状物; 尺度; 等级; 比例规模, 相对大小; 天平，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：
-- Unbelieving Philosophers who were remodelling the world with words, and making card-towers of Babel to scale the skies with, talked with Unbelieving Chemists who had an eye on the transmuta-tion of metals, at this wonderful gathering accumulated by Monseigneur.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in consequence of this, Vronsky, who had been in the habit of living on the scale of forty-five thousand a year, having only received twenty thousand that year, found himself now in difficulties.
-- In all operations on a large scale on this and his other estates, he kept to the simplest methods involving no risk, and in trifling details he was careful and exacting to an extreme degree.
-- At a big station at a town the volunteers were again greeted with shouts and singing, again men and women with collecting boxes appeared, and provincial ladies brought bouquets to the volunteers and followed them into the refreshment room; but all this was on a much smaller and feebler scale than in Moscow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steamer passed along near the shores, but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look athim, and see that he was solitary, I went into the booking-office,and, by invitation of the clerk on duty, passed behind the counter,and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage.
-- When I conducted Mrs. Micawber to my dressing-table, and shesaw the scale on which it was prepared for her, she was in suchraptures, that she called Mr. Micawber to come in and look.
-- It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen'sbooks, as if we might have kept the basement story paved withbutter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of thatarticle.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this age of literature, such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon.
-- Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr. Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favourite and intimate of a man who had so many inti-mates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
-- murmured Joseph Poorgrass, who habitually spoke on a large scale in his moral reflections.
-- Her original vigorous pride of youth had sickened, and with it had declined all her anxieties about coming years, since anxiety recognizes a better and a worse alternative, and Bathsheba had made up her mind that alternatives on any noteworthy scale had ceased for her.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely the beautiful Vicomtesse's personal interest would turn the scale for me, when the mere mention of her name produces such an effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was to be absent only one night, and, on my return, the gratification of his impatience for my starting as a gentleman on a greater scale was to be begun.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether party, in religion or politics, were observed to be of any weight in the scale of justice?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men appeared robust but heavy; fair-haired like Germans, but of pensive mien--exiles of a higher scale in the ladder of humanity than the Eskimos, but, I thought, much more unhappy, since with superior perceptions they are compelled to live within the limits of the Polar Circle.
-- It was quite evident to me that we were ascending the scale of animal life of which man forms the summit.
-- By means of these wondrous and unexpected discoveries, man ascended endless centuries in the scale of time; he, in fact, preceded the mastodon; became the contemporary of the Elephas meridionalis--the southern elephant; acquired an antiquity of over a hundred thousand years, since that is the date given by the most eminent geologists to the Pliocene period of the earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Smite Thou my debtors, Lord, wither them, crush them; do Thou as I would do, and Thou shalt have my worship: this was the impious tower of stone she built up to scale Heaven.
-- Whether a prisoner could scale the walls with a cord and grapple, how he would descend upon the other side?
-- But it took a morning to scale that wall; and I doubt if any other man than myself (he likes me of old) could have got his leg over it.
-- The tenancy of Mr Pancks was limited to one airy bedroom; he covenanting and agreeing with Mr Rugg his landlord, that in consideration of a certain scale of payments accurately defined, and on certain verbal notice duly given, he should be at liberty to elect to share the Sunday breakfast, dinner, tea, or supper, or each or any or all of those repasts or meals of Mr and Miss Rugg (his daughter) in the back-parlour.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this book is an outline purporting to be a "Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck."
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