acre是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 英亩； 田地； 地产，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then eight hundred acres of wheat, three hundred of potatoes, and four hundred of clover, and not one acre exhausted.
-- I was up home; an old man up there has sown wheat too, about an acre of it.
-- I go there every year shooting, and your forest's worth a hundred and fifty roubles and acre paid down, while he's giving you sixty by installments.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here Cecil Twyford, that lean abrupt man, ruled every acre and interpreted every law.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the books and his conversations with the clerk he learned that, as before, two-thirds of the best arable land was cultivated by his own men, and the rest by peasants who were paid five rubles per acre--that is to say, for five rubles the peasant undertook to plow, harrow and sow an acre of land three times, then mow it, bind or press it, and carry it to the barn.
-- "There is but an acre to every person.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chest-nuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trou-ble very great, and they had little or no crop.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord, think of having half an acre of stomach-ache!Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.
-- Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to 'em, to stay in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all, brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let me see shall I order eyes to see outwards?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER IX - A BOATBUT first I was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground.
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