precision是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 精确， 精确度，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：
-- The Indians fling them often at the distance of a hundred feet from the animal or enemy of which they are in pursuit, and with such precision that they catch round their legs and throw them down in an instant.
-- Chiefs of high position may be known by the finish and precision and truth of the design, which sometimes covers their whole bodies with the figures of animals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not seeing with precision what was very hard, Mr. Lorry shook his head; using that important part of himself as a sort of fairy cloak that would fit anything.
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：
-- The northern-lights shone with such precision that one could tell exactly when they were at their highest or lowest degree of brightness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot admit it," said Sergey Ivanovitch, with his habitual clearness, precision of expression, and elegance of phrase.
-- "I'm always amazed at the clearness and precision of your husband's language," she said.
-- This trick, a bad habit, the cracking of his fingers, always soothed him, and gave precision to his thoughts, so needful to him at this juncture.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He treated her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of an automaton, the movements of which had been arranged for this purpose.
-- Phileas Fogg was free!He walked to the detective, looked him steadily in the face, and with the only rapid motion he had ever made in his life, or which he ever would make, drew back his arms, and with the precision of a machine knocked Fix down.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not five times in five years do I have students who understand craftsmanship and precision and maybe some big imagination in hypotheses.
-- He examined her--his pudgy hands had the sensitiveness if not the precision of Gottlieb's skeleton fingers.
-- "I think truth does matter to me, but if it does, isn't the desire for scientific precision simply my hobby, like another man's excitement about his golf?
-- And he was touched as Tubbs went on: "Arrowsmith, I suspect you sometimes feel I lack a sense of scientific precision when I insist on practical results.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little girl was still trembling; but the boy, kneeling on his little bare knees, lifted his hand rhythmically, crossing himself with precision and bowed down, touching the floor with his forehead, which seemed to afford him especial sat-isfaction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It being thenjust dinner-time, we went, first into the great kitchen, where everyprisoner's dinner was in course of being set out separately (to behanded to him in his cell), with the regularity and precision ofclock-work.
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：
-- From such undeniable testimony did the practised woodsman arrive at the truth, with nearly as much certainty and precision as if he had been a witness of all those events which his ingenuity so easily elucidated.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glasses and cups still stood upon the table, a water-jug being overturned, from which a small rill, after tracing its course with marvellous precision down the centre of the long table, fell into the neck of the unconscious Mark Clark, in a steady, monotonous drip, like the dripping of a stalactite in a cave.
-- There was not a sound of life save that acme and sublimation of all dismal sounds, the bark of a fox, its three hollow notes being rendered at intervals of a minute with the precision of a funeral bell.
-- "Nobody can hurt a dead woman," at length said Coggan, with the precision of a machine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Muttering that I would make the inquiry whether I had time to walk with him, I went into the office, and ascertained from the clerk with the nicest precision and much to the trying of his temper, the earliest moment at which the coach could be expected,--which I knew beforehand, quite as well as he.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, though nobody knew with the least precision what Mr Merdle's business was, except that it was to coin money, these were the terms in which everybody defined it on all ceremonious occasions, and which it was the last new polite reading of the parable of the camel and the needle's eye to accept without inquiry.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
-- The three corresponding new sails were now bent and reefed, and a storm-trysail was set further aft; so that the ship soon went through the water with some precision again; and the course for the present, East-south-east which he was to steer, if practicable, was once more given to the helmsman.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on this sub-ject, to arrange with rather more precision the degree of importance which is to appertain to this request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting between the parties?'
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