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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first extends from the chain of the Andes, and stretches over an extent of 250 miles covered with stunted trees and bushes; the second 450 miles is clothed with magnificent herbage, and stops about 180 miles from Buenos Ayres; from this point to the sea, the foot of the traveler treads over immense prairies of lucerne and thistles, which constitute the third division of the Pampas.
-- He even sent the boats to make the circuit of the island, the entire extent of which was not more than seventeen miles at most.
-- The extent of the injuries must first be ascertained, and in order to do this he ordered some of the men to dive down below the stern.
-- From that elevation he could see the whole extent of the "pah," and as far as Kai-Koumou's house.
-- On this vast extent of twenty miles square, the subterranean forces had a field for the display of all their varied effects.
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：
-- Sir Charles lay on his face, his arms out, his fingers dug into the ground, and his features convulsed with some strong emotion to such an extent that I could hardly have sworn to his identity.
-- I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nastasia seemed to Totski to have divined all this, and to be preparing something on her own account, which frightened him to such an extent that he did not dare com-municate his views even to the general.
-- Varvara was a girl of some twenty-three summers, of middle height, thin, but possessing a face which, without being actually beautiful, had the rare quality of charm, and might fascinate even to the extent of passionate regard.
-- It may be added that the whole company, not excepting Lebedeff, had the vaguest idea of the extent of their powers, and of how far they could safely go.
-- The 'impudence of ignorance,' if I may use the expression, is developed to a wonderful extent in such cas-es; unlikely as it appears, it is met with at every turn.
-- Thanks to the manner in which he regarded Nastasia's mental and moral condition, the prince was to some extent freed from other perplexities.
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：
-- In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any oth-er district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
-- Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
-- When the fact was generally understood, the savages raised a frightful yell, which declared the extent of their disap-pointment.
-- Whatever might be the extent of the self-de-lusion of his enemies, and however it had tended to assist his schemes, the slightest cause of suspicion, acting on the subtle nature of an Indian, would be likely to prove fatal.
-- He had no occasion to delay, for at the next instant a burst of cries filled the outer air, and ran along the whole extent of the village.
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：
-- Until he married he led the ordinary life of his fellows, gambling mildly on the Exchange, interested to the extent of a sovereign or two on the result of the Derby or the Oxford and Cambridge Race.
-- The extent of their experience is pleasantly balanced by the fertility of their imagination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They ascended towards the north, having on their left an interminable extent of billows, which broke with a deafening noise, and on their right a dark country, the aspect of which it was impossible to guess.
-- On the left, the country appeared to be one vast extent of sandy downs, bristling with thistles.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But so little interest had he taken in the matter, that he owed all his knowledge of the house, garden, and glebe, extent of the parish, condition of the land, and rate of the tithes, to Elinor herself, who had heard so much of it from Colonel Brandon, and heard it with so much attention, as to be entirely mistress of the subject.
-- It was an arrangement, however, justified in its effects, if not in its cause; for nothing ever appeared in Robert's style of living or of talking to give a suspicion of his regretting the extent of his income, as either leaving his brother too little, or bringing himself too much; and if Edward might be judged from the ready discharge of his duties in every particular, from an increasing attachment to his wife and his home, and from the regular cheerfulness of his spirits, he might be supposed no less contented with his lot, no less free from every wish of an exchange.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the social flavour was strong enough he would even unbend to the extent of drinking glass for glass with his associates, punctiliously observing his turn to pay as if he were an outsider like the others.
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