measurement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 衡量， 测量； 尺寸，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But first, be it recorded, that, in this matter, I am not free to utter any fancied measurement I please.
-- Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoner counted the measurement again, and paced faster, to draw his mind with him from that lat-ter repetition.
-- There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time.
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：
-- No percep-tible emotion could be discovered in the Mohicans during this critical moment, their rigid features expressing neither hope nor alarm; but the scout again turned his head, and, laughing in his own silent manner, he said to Heyward: 'The knaves love to hear the sounds of their pieces; but the eye is not to be found among the Mingoes that can cal-culate a true range in a dancing canoe!You see the dumb devils have taken off a man to charge, and by the smallest measurement that can be allowed, we move three feet to their two!'
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