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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
-- These buckets were about the size of large thim-bles, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could: but the flame was so violent that they did little good.
-- As the common size of the natives is somewhat un-der six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several grada-tions downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a size larger than Mr. Bounderby's house, as other houses were from a size to half-a-dozen sizes smaller; in all other particulars, it was strictly according to pattern.
-- You see this place; you know what sort of a place it is; you are aware that there's not a completer place of its size in this kingdom or elsewhere I don't care where and here, got into the middle of it, like a maggot into a nut, is Josiah Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," cried the agitated Professor, "and there yonder is a huge sea lizard of terrible size and shape."
-- His jaw is of awful size and strength, and according to the best-informed naturalists, it does not contain less than a hundred and eighty-two teeth.
-- The ball of fire, half white, half azure-colored, about the size of a ten-inch bombshell, moved along, turning with prodigious rapidity to leeward of the storm.
-- About the size of an ordinary whale, with hideous jaws and two gigantic eyes, it advanced.
-- At this moment, just as my eyes appeared to close in death, there came a strange noise from the entrance of the cave; and turning, the gorilla evidently recognized some enemy more worthy his prodigious size and strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not much to look at, either in point of size or in point of dress; being merely a short, square, practical looking man, whose hair had turned grey, and in whose face and forehead there were deep lines of cogitation, which looked as though they were carved in hard wood.
-- As she held out her hand to him with these words, the heart that was under the waistcoat of sprigs mere slop-work, if the truth must be known swelled to the size of the heart of a gentleman; and the poor common little fellow, having no room to hold it, burst into tears.
-- And, with a rigid movement of her stony reticule (an appendage of great size and of a fossil appearance), indicated that Clennam was the unfortunate person at whom the challenge was hurled.
-- That envoy found her on a little square of carpet, so extremely diminutive in reference to the size of her stone and marble floor that she looked as if she might have had it spread for the trying on of a ready-made pair of shoes; or as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into a palatial saloon with which it had no connection.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In stumbling to the door, she upset the bas-ket, and oh horror! the lobster, in all its vulgar size and brilliancy, was revealed to the highborn eyes of a Tudor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is again carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise upon the loom or handle of every man's oar, so that it jogs against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size of a common quill, prevents it from slipping out.
-- The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
-- Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a strangely discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low down on the flank.
-- Two thick squares of wood of equal size are stoutly clenched together, so that they cross each other's grain at right angles; a line of considerable length is then attached to the middle of this block, and the other end of the line being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon.
-- A whaleman's nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan's tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a second or two, Oliver glanced up the street, and down the street, and over the way: impressed with the belief that the unknown, who had addressed him through the key -hole, had walked a few paces off, to warm himself; for nobody did he see but a big charity -boy, sitting on a post in front of the house, eating a slice of bread and butter: which he cut into wedges, the size of his mouth, with a clasp-knife, and then consumed with great dexterity.
-- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light.
-- The ends of his white neckerchief were twisted into a ball about the size of an orange; the variety of shapes into which his countenance was twisted, defy description.
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