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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hundred whales of the largest size could hardly have dashed up the ocean waves more violently.
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：
-- In mere size and strength it was a terrible creature which was lying stretched before us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I sold the bonds, but I didn't take the seven thousand roubles to the office; I went straight to the English shop and chose a pair of earrings, with a diamond the size of a nut in each.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some dim, black things about three or four times the size of rabbits went running or hopping up from the beach towards the bushes as I passed.
-- It was the size of a man, but it seemed covered with a dull grey hair almost like a Skye-terrier.
-- In one place three strange, pink, hopping animals, about the size of cats, bolted before my footsteps.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, he is just the size I want,' said Mr. Sikes, ruminating.
-- 'There was two of 'em in it,' continued Blathers; 'and they had a boy with 'em; that's plain from the size of the window.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might al-most have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first con-vey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
-- I talked about the dance, and YOU ought to make some sort of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.'
-- She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, though my little periagua was finished, yet the size of it was not at all answerable to the design which I had in view when I made the first; I mean of venturing over to the TERRA FIRMA, where it was above forty miles broad; accordingly, the smallness of my boat assisted to put an end to that design, and now I thought no more of it.
-- The two muskets I loaded with a brace of slugs each, and four or five smaller bullets, about the size of pistol bullets; and the fowling- piece I load-ed with near a handful of swan-shot of the largest size; I also loaded my pistols with about four bullets each; and, in this posture, well provided with ammunition for a second and third charge, I prepared myself for my expedition.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.
-- She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with modern furniture it would be delightful.
-- I warrant you she is a fine size by this time."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She hunted out an unassuming restaurant and entered, but was disturbed to find that the prices were exorbitant for the size of her purse.
-- Carrie noticed the difference between the size of the rooms here and in Chicago and mentioned it.
-- In April she learned that the opera would probably last until the middle or the end of May, according to the size of the audiences.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said he could size their style.
-- My heart fell down amongst my lungs and livers and things, and a hard piece of corn-crust started down my throat after it and got met on the road with a cough, and was shot across the table, and took one of the children in the eye and curled him up like a fishing-worm, and let a cry out of him the size of a warwhoop, and Tom he turned kinder blue around the gills, and it all amounted to a considerable state of things for about a quarter of a minute or as much as that, and I would a sold out for half price if there was a bidder.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They pecked and pecked so hard at that enormous nose that in a few moments, it was the same size as before.
-- "Do you think that a fish of that size will stand there waiting for you?
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