proportion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 比率, 比例, 大小, 容积，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：
-- Then Levin had driven over himself, and arranged to have the grass cut, partly by hired labor, partly at a payment of a certain proportion of the crop.
-- As for the amusements of bachelor existence, which had provided Vronsky with entertainment on previous tours abroad, they could not be thought of, since the sole attempt of the sort had led to a sudden attack of depression in Anna, quite out of proportion with the cause--a late supper with bachelor friends.
-- But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest."
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：
-- You are nervously irritable, Rodion Roma-novitch, by temperament; it's out of proportion with other qualities of your heart and character, which I flatter myself I have to some extent divined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made the cottage smaller than it need have been, bybeing so very much out of proportion to it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said no more, other subjects took their turn; and the rest of the din-ner passed away; the dessert succeeded, the children came in, and were talked to and admired amid the usual rate of conversation; a few clever things said, a few downright silly, but by much the larger proportion neither the one nor the other nothing worse than everyday remarks, dull repeti-tions, old news, and heavy jokes.
-- They met readily and smiling, but with a conscious-ness which at first allowed little to be said; and having all sat down again, there was for some time such a blank in the circle, that Emma began to doubt whether the wish now in-dulged, which she had long felt, of seeing Frank Churchill once more, and of seeing him with Jane, would yield its proportion of pleasure.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
-- He calculated that he had walked a very fair proportion of the journey; and having been on foot since daybreak, he felt tempted to lie down upon the hay in the waggon instead of pushing on to the village of Weatherbury, and having to pay for a lodging.
-- THE HOMESTEAD A VISITOR HALF-CONFIDENCESBy daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.
-- Well, since the world is brightening for me, I want to show my sense of it by increasing your proportion in the partnership.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among them she distributed, with astronomical precision, the exact proportion of respect and attention due to the varying amounts they paid for their board.
-- Vauquer's aversion was naturally more energetic than her friendship, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love, but to her disappointed expectations.
-- Why should he devote so small a proportion of his money to his expenses?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- As the common size of the natives is somewhat un-der six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several grada-tions downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
-- But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me?
-- He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores; but allowing for the proportion of all things be-tween that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guin-eas would be in England.
-- I had an entire set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessar-ies, which, in proportion to those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy-shop for the furniture of a baby-house: these my little nurse kept in her pocket in a silver box, and gave me at meals as I want-ed them, always cleaning them herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find, on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of these marriages are contracted between parties of very unequal ages, and that the elder of these contracting parties is, in rather more than three-fourths of these instances, the bridegroom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is about the proportion found in most southern languages, the idioms of the north being much more rich in consonants.
-- Perhaps a common barometer would not have done as well, the atmospheric pressure being likely to increase in proportion as we descended below the surface of the earth.
-- It is true that the intensity of weight will diminish just in proportion to the depth to which we go.
扩展阅读：