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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If it was a whale, it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science.
-- Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its destructive weapons, and you obtain the animal required.
-- Now, if I have made reservoirs of a size equal to this tenth, or capable of holding 150 tons, and if I fill them with water, the boat, weighing then 1,507 tons, will be completely immersed.
-- I must tell you that these cases are size number four, and that the charge for an ordinary gun would be ten."
-- There, between the folded plaits, I saw a loose pearl, whose size equalled that of a coco-nut.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Ship gone, neck gone that's the size of it.
-- It was around about the size of a crown piece.
-- But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow.
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