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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The aborigines of Australia are low enough in the scale of human intelligence, and most degraded and uncivilized, but they are mild and gentle in disposition, and not sanguinary like their New Zealand neighbors.
-- Cliffs composed of beds of strata made a coast line sixty to eighty feet high, which it would have been difficult to scale without ladders or cramp-irons.
-- Renewed howls broke forth, mingled with the barking of dogs, and the whole tribe, after vainly trying to scale the rock of Ware-Atoua, rushed out of the pah, and hastened by the shortest paths in pursuit of the prisoners who were flying from their vengeance.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A large scale map, I presume?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am but a poor creature, a beggar, an atom in the scale of humanity.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took the balance by the middle, and when he lifted it up the day of the Achaeans sank; the death-fraught scale of the Achaeans settled down upon the ground, while that of the Trojans rose heavenwards.
-- Be off, girl and coward that you are, you shall not scale our walls through any flinching upon my part; neither shall you carry off our wives in your ships, for I shall kill you with my own hand.'
-- Then he turned round towards the Trojans and called on them to scale the wall, and they did as he bade them some of them at once climb-ing over the wall, while others passed through the gates.
-- Ajax and Menelaus noted how Jove had turned the scale in favour of the Trojans, and Ajax was first to speak.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found their simple scale of honour was based mainly on the capacity for inflict-ing trenchant wounds.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird Hide or fin or scale or feather Jabber it quickly and all together!
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：
-- But everything depends on what scale you look at things.
-- Now, on the small scale, the 'arth is level; but on the large scale it is round.
-- 'These devils will scale heaven to circumvent us to our ruin,' said Hawkeye; 'keep him in play, boy, until I can bring 'killdeer' to bear, when we will try his metal on each side of the tree at once.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is sufficient to know that vanity, interest, poverty, and every spendthrift consideration urged him to look upon the proposal with favour, and that where all other inducements were wanting, the habitual carelessness of his disposition stepped in and still weighed down the scale on the same side.
-- 'It's in the scale from this time, and turns it, Fred.
-- Making his voice ascend in the scale with every succeeding question, Mr Quilp finished in a shrill squeak, and subsided into the panting look which was customary with him, and which, whether it were assumed or natural, had equally the effect of banishing all expression from his face, and rendering it, as far as it afforded any index to his mood or meaning, a perfect blank.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the two things had happened--either she had fallen in love with Simonson and did not wish his sacrifice, which weighed so heavily on him, or she was still in love with Nekhludoff and renounced him for his own good, burning all bridges behind her, and throwing her fortunes in the same scale with those of Simonson.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here are maps on a large scale by which you may follow it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Darcy was tall, and on a larger scale than Elizabeth; and, though little more than sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance womanly and graceful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a finely graduated scale of informality and friendship, which improved from the "How do you do?"
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