size是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大小， 尺寸， 规模； 尺码，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration.
-- It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 276 A tale of two cities Mr. Lorry glanced at the work in his hand, and observed that it was a shoe of the old size and shape.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After admiring the young ones of that year, who were particularly fine--the early calves were the size of a peasant's cow, and Pava's daughter, at three months old, was a big as a yearling-- Levin gave orders for a trough to be brought out and for them to be fed in the paddock.
-- She would have been a good figure, too, if it had not been for her extreme thinness and the size of her head, which was too large for her medium height.
-- On her head there was such a superstructure of soft, golden hair--her own and false mixed--that her head was equal in size to the elegantly rounded bust, of which so much was exposed in front.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through a strained eternity of waiting, while he glowered, she babbled of the floor, the size of the room, and her "dandy partners."
-- Most centrifuges are hand- or water- power contrivances the size of a large cocktail-shaker, but this noble implement was four feet across, electrically driven, the central bowl enclosed in armor plate fastened with levers like a submarine hatch, the whole mounted on a cement pillar.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This pledge was, however, only a smoothly planed piece of wood the size and thick-ness of a silver cigarette case.
-- 'I did not go empty- handed they took the size from this mon-ster.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma wished to go to work directly, and there-fore produced the portfolio containing her various attempts at portraits, for not one of them had ever been finished, that they might decide together on the best size for Harriet.
-- She had soon fixed on the size and sort of portrait.
-- Her height was pretty, just such as almost every body would think tall, and no-body could think very tall; her figure particularly graceful; her size a most becoming medium, between fat and thin, though a slight appearance of ill-health seemed to point out the likeliest evil of the two.
-- ' Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdash-er's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place. 'And so, there she had set, without an idea of any thing in the world, full ten minutes, perhaps when, all of a sudden, who should come in to be sure it was so very odd! but they always dealt at Ford's who should come in, but Elizabeth Martin and her brother! Dear Miss Woodhouse!only think.
-- Another room of much better size might be secured for the purpose; but it was at the other end of the house, and a long awkward passage must be gone through to get at it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be observed that such a class of mug is called a God-forgive-me in Weatherbury and its vicinity for uncertain reasons; probably because its size makes any given toper feel ashamed of himself when he sees its bottom in drinking it empty.
-- There's heavy chairs for the stout, weak and wiry ones for the slender; great watches, getting on to the size of clocks, to stand upon the chimbley-piece."
-- Here he placed his fist, rather smaller in size than a common loaf, in the mathematical centre of the maltster's little table, and with it gave a bump or two thereon, as if to ensure that their eyes all thoroughly took in the idea of fistiness before he went further.
-- "I reckon that's the size o't," said Coggan, working along without looking up.
-- To get at the root of the matter, Troy took a penknife from his pocket and softly made two little cuts crosswise in the cloth, which, by folding back the corners left a hole the size of a wafer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hair was parted in the middle andarranged in three rolls of graduating size on each side of the head, the largest, nearest the part, being the "cat."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They gave him plenty of food, yet for all they could do he never grew bigger, but kept just the same size as he had been when he was born.
-- She want-ed to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the glass-mountain; so this faithful little sister took a knife out of her pocket and cut off her little finger, that was just the size of the piece of wood she had lost, and put it in the door and opened it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
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