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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, sir, to a certain extent you are right.
-- He had reached to a certain extent the goal of his desires, and yet he was likely to be wrecked in port.
-- From its mighty extent I saw at once that the hand of man could have had nothing to do with this coal mine; the vault above would have fallen in; as it was, it was only held together by some miracle of nature.
-- My panting form, my haggard countenance, must have indicated the extent of my sufferings.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.
-- He was estimating her, and the extent of the impression he had made.
-- But to the extent I do own it, yes, most decided-ly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have some extent of such property about the east and north-east here, I believe?'
-- It was supposed that no persuasion could be invented which would induce Mrs Tickit to abandon her post at the blind, however long their absence, or to dispense with the attendance of Dr Buchan; the lucubrations of which learned practitioner, Mr Meagles implicitly believed she had never yet consulted to the extent of one word in her life.
-- Went up to our place and Pitched into my father to that extent that it was necessary to order him out.
-- Only the wisdom that holds the clue to all hearts and all mysteries, can surely know to what extent a man, especially a man brought down as this man had been, can impose upon himself.
-- Mr Flintwinch took the letter, and read, under date of Paris, 'We have to present to you, on behalf of a highly esteemed correspondent of our Firm, M. Blandois, of this city,' &c. &c. 'Such facilities as he may require and such attentions as may lie in your power,' &c. &c. 'Also have to add that if you will honour M. Blandois' drafts at sight to the extent of, say Fifty Pounds sterling (50l.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Amy had whetted her tongue and freed her mind she usually got the best of it, for she seldom failed to have common sense on her side, while Jo carried her love of lib-erty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argu-ment.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means to the same extent as with whalemen.
-- I mention this circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves had been purposely locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the herd had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its stopping; or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way innocent and inexperienced; however it may have been, these smaller whales now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin of the lake evinced a wondrous fearlessness and confidence, or else a still becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel at.
-- But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the most complicated part; and as nothing is to be repeated concerning it in this chapter, you must not fail to carry it in your mind, or under your arm, as we proceed, otherwise you will not gain a complete notion of the general structure we are about to view.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,' said Darcy, 'has too much truth.
-- To know that she had the power of re-vealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate; and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeat-ing something of Bingley which might only grieve her sister further.
-- He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little ad-vantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother-in-law, and he was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance, and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.
-- The vague and un-settled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up a hill, which seemed to overlook that point where I saw the full extent of it, and resolved to ven-ture.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are moments when the extent of it seems doubtful; and till his sentiments are fully known, you cannot wonder at my wishing to avoid any encouragement of my own partiality, by believing or calling it more than it is.
-- To attach myself to your sister, therefore, was not a thing to be thought of; and with a meanness, selfishness, cruelty which no indignant, no contemptuous look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too much I was acting in this manner, trying to engage her regard, without a thought of returning it. But one thing may be said for me: even in that horrid state of selfish vanity, I did not know the extent of the injury I meditated, because I did not THEN know what it was to love.
-- When at last she returned to the unconscious Marianne, she found her just awaking, refreshed by so long and sweet a sleep to the extent of her hopes.
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