calculate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 计算， 推算； 计划， 打算，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have resolved to give him ten thousand roubles; that is about the sum which I calculate that Pavlicheff must have spent on me.'
-- He looked at it as a case that might bring him in a lot of money, and he did not calculate badly; be-cause on the one hand he speculated on the generosity of the prince, and his gratitude to the late Mr. Pavlicheff, and on the other to his chivalrous ideas as to the obligations of honour and conscience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the case of a shock under which the sufferer was borne 283down, one cannot say for how long, because I believe he can-not calculate the time himself, and there are no other means of getting at it.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even; that he knew the number of square miles there were in the differ-ent countries, and how many inhabitants they contained; and she smiled while he spoke.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no!the charms of Aouda failed to act, to Passepartout's great surprise; and the disturbances, if they existed, would have been more difficult to calculate than those of Uranus which led to the discovery of Neptune.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were like tram-cars running on their lines from terminus to terminus, and it was possible to calculate within small limits the number of passengers they would carry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That is why," returned Harding, "I am going to try this evening to calculate the latitude of Lincoln Island, and to-morrow, at midday, I will try to calculate the longitude."
-- Harding resolved, in consequence, to make his observation from Prospect Heights, taking into consideration its height above the level of the sea a height which he intended to calculate next day by a simple process of elementary geometry.
-- That done, there was only the angle to calculate by bringing back the observation to the level of the sea, taking into consideration the depression of the horizon, which would necessitate measuring the height of the cliff.
-- They had now only to calculate the operation.
-- The engineer, calculating the time employed in its fall, was able to calculate the depth of the well, which was found to be about ninety feet.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am as con-fident of seeing Frank here before the middle of January, as I am of being here myself: but your good friend there (nod-ding towards the upper end of the table) has so few vagaries herself, and has been so little used to them at Hartfield, that she cannot calculate on their effects, as I have been long in the practice of doing.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever was the cause, it was a phenomenon upon the duration of which we could calculate with certainty.
-- Before we took our final departure from the island, however, I made some observations to calculate the distance we had gone over, and I put them down in my journal.
-- With it alone I can calculate the depth as we proceed; by its means alone I shall be able to decide when we have reached the centre of the earth.
-- The boxes which contained our supply of food for the voyage were placed in a row along the strand, and were in a capital state of preservation; the sea had in every case respected their contents, and to sum up in one sentence, taking into consideration, biscuits, salt meat, Schiedam and dried fish, we could still calculate on having about four months' supply, if used with prudence and caution.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because such a declaration as Clennam's, made at such a time, would certainly draw down upon him a storm of animosity, rendering it impossible to calculate on forbearance in the creditors, or on unanimity among them; and exposing him a solitary target to a straggling cross-fire, which might bring him down from half-a-dozen quarters at once.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the central blinds of bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings.
-- Good Lord!Truly, sir, if it comes to that, I must calculate over again; I think I didn't carry a small figure, sir.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though, if I felt confident of his treachery ' 'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of an Iro-quois,' said the scout, throwing his rifle forward, by a sort of instinctive movement.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I began this work; and when I be-gan to enter upon it, and calculate how deep it was to be dug, how broad, how the stuff was to be thrown out, I found that, by the number of hands I had, being none but my own, it must have been ten or twelve years before I could have gone through with it; for the shore lay so high, that at the upper end it must have been at least twenty feet deep; so at length, though with great reluctancy, I gave this attempt over also.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A three weeks' residence at Delaford, where, in his evening hours at least, he had little to do but to calculate the disproportion between thirty-six and seventeen, brought him to Barton in a temper of mind which needed all the improvement in Marianne's looks, all the kindness of her welcome, and all the encouragement of her mother's language, to make it cheerful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution, she was happy.
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