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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The downs, the extent of which was large, were composed of hillocks and even of hills, very irregularly distributed.
-- If Cyrus Harding was not mistaken in his calculation, the island had almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean, but it was at the same time much more irregular and less rich in capes, promontories, points, bays, or creeks.
-- The exploration of the island was finished, its shape determined, its features made out, its extent calculated, the water and mountain systems ascertained.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lastly, inquiry was made into the nature and extent of Kit's wardrobe, and a small advance being made to improve the same, he was formally hired at an annual income of Six Pounds, over and above his board and lodging, by Mr and Mrs Garland, of Abel Cottage, Finchley.
-- 'Don't you feel how naughty it is of you,' resumed Miss Monflathers, 'to be a wax-work child, when you might have the proud consciousness of assisting, to the extent of your infant powers, the manufactures of your country; of improving your mind by the constant contemplation of the steam-engine; and of earning a comfortable and independent subsistence of from two-and-ninepence to three shillings per week?
-- If the truth must be told, even Mr Swiveller's approaches to the single gentleman were of a very distant kind, and met with small encouragement; but, as he never returned from a monosyllabic conference with the unknown, without quoting such expressions as 'Swiveller, I know I can rely upon you,' 'I have no hesitation in saying, Swiveller, that I entertain a regard for you,' 'Swiveller, you are my friend, and will stand by me I am sure,' with many other short speeches of the same familiar and confiding kind, purporting to have been addressed by the single gentleman to himself, and to form the staple of their ordinary discourse, neither Mr Brass nor Miss Sally for a moment questioned the extent of his influence, but accorded to him their fullest and most unqualified belief.
-- Among other things, Kit told them about his old place, and the extraordinary beauty of Nell (of whom he had talked to Barbara a thousand times already); but the last-named circumstance failed to interest his hearers to anything like the extent he had supposed, and even his mother said (looking accidentally at Barbara at the same time) that there was no doubt Miss Nell was very pretty, but she was but a child after all, and there were many young women quite as pretty as she; and Barbara mildly observed that she should think so, and that she never could help believing Mr Christopher must be under a mistake which Kit wondered at very much, not being able to conceive what reason she had for doubting him.
-- The sun shone pleasantly on the bright water, which was sometimes shaded by trees, and sometimes open to a wide extent of country, intersected by running streams, and rich with wooded hills, cultivated land, and sheltered farms.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The fate of these people is in your hands, as is to some extent the fate of society, which is influenced by your verdict.
-- "This: That since it was through my fault that she is in her present condition, I consider it my duty to help her to the extent of my ability."
-- thought Nekhludoff as he made his way out of the prison, and he only now realized the extent of his guilt.
-- "I am old, and yet I am serving to the extent of my ability."
-- To what extent is crime due to heredity?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water, and since, pull as I liked, I could not budge the downhall, that was the extent of what I could accomplish.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Anderson ordered the engines to be stopped at once, and one of the men went down to ascertain the extent of the injury.
-- As long as the sun described its daily course, the rigging was crowded with sailors, whose feet were burnt to such an extent by the heat of the deck as to render it unbearable; still the Abraham Lincoln had not yet breasted the suspected waters of the Pacific.
-- The Pacific Ocean extends from north to south between the two Polar Circles, and from east to west between Asia and America, over an extent of 145 degrees of longitude.
-- Soon the nature of the soil changed; to the sandy plain succeeded an extent of slimy mud which the Americans call "ooze," composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous shells.
-- "A large extent of white wavelets often to be seen on the coasts of Amboyna, and in these parts of the sea."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald had feared and despised his father, and to a great extent had avoided him all through boyhood and young manhood.
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