extent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 广度， 宽度， 长度； 程度， 限度，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He vowed he would not bet, and he kept his vow, for on leaving the town at nine o'clock in the evening he had diminished his cash only to the extent of a few shillings.
-- It was on the obscure side of the tower, screened to a great extent from the view of passers along the road a spot which until lately had been abandoned to heaps of stones and bushes of alder, but now it was cleared and made orderly for interments, by reason of the rapid filling of the ground elsewhere.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
-- de Marcillac's letter of introduction, the poor student had been kindly received in that house before he knew the extent of the favor thus shown to him.
-- We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
-- You shall sound the depths of corruption in woman; you shall measure the extent of man's pitiful vanity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a jour-ney, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
-- I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
-- But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition.
-- As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right.
-- If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine,--which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity,--it is the key to many reservations.
-- He came to the rescue at this point, and said in a consolatory and complimentary voice, "Camilla, my dear, it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other."
-- "Without expecting any thanks, or anything of the sort," resumed Camilla, "I have remained in that state, hours and hours, and Raymond is a witness of the extent to which I have choked, and what the total inefficacy of ginger has been, and I have been heard at the piano-forte tuner's across the street, where the poor mistaken children have even supposed it to be pigeons cooing at a distance,--and now to be told--" Here Camilla put her hand to her throat, and began to be quite chemical as to the formation of new combinations there.
-- But she shook her head to that extent when she was shown it, that we were terrified lest in her weak and shattered state she should dislocate her neck.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants ap-pointed for that purpose.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- But it must be observed, that this island cannot move beyond the extent of the dominions below, nor can it rise above the height of four miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It really did seem to impress him, to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed.
-- I am quite ready to go in for it, to the same extent as if I believed it.
-- She was likewise deeply apologetic for wanting the salt; and, feeling amiably bound to bear out Mr. Bounderby to the fullest extent in the testimony he had borne to her nerves, occasionally sat back in her chair and silently wept; at which periods a tear of large dimensions, like a crystal ear-ring, might be observed (or rather, must be, for it insisted on public notice) sliding down her Roman nose.
-- 'But do you know,' he asked, quite at a loss, 'the extent of what you ask?
-- The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To a certain extent I was anxious to be off.
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