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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity be-fore the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all; or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these concessions and rebuffs of fortune, of late, had wounded his spirit severely, and his temper had become extremely irrita-ble, his wrath being generally quite out of proportion to the cause.
-- 'At all events, I must request you to step into the salon,' said Gania, his rage rising quite out of proportion to his words, 'and then I shall inquire ' 'What, he doesn't know me!'
-- Oth-ers, however, took the hint and sat down, as far as they could from the table, however; feeling braver in proportion to their distance from Nastasia.
-- And what if she torments you BECAUSE she loves you, and in proportion to her love for you, so she torments you the more?
-- 'Though the position of all of us at that time was not par-ticularly brilliant, and the poverty was dreadful all round, yet the etiquette at court was strictly preserved, and the more strictly in proportion to the growth of the forebod-ings of disaster.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not grasp his meaning then; afterwards I was to find that a great proportion of these Beast People had mal-formed hands, lacking sometimes even three digits.
-- I spent an increasing proportion of my time upon the beach, looking for some liberating sail that never appeared, until one day there fell upon us an appalling disaster, which put an altogether dif-ferent aspect upon my strange surroundings.
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：
-- The danger was, there-fore, magnified exactly in proportion to the number of the savage spirits by which they were surrounded.
-- 'Perhaps,' added the scout, losing his dissembled coolness exactly in proportion as the other manifested an indiffer- ence to the exchange, 'if I should condition to teach your young men the real virtue of the we'pon, it would smoothe the little differences in our judgments.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if they feel a degree of cold in proportion to the elevation they attain in the atmosphere, we experienced quite a contrary effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you happen to know, Mrs Clennam,' Affery's liege lord then demanded in a much lower voice, and with an amount of expression that seemed quite out of proportion to the simple purpose of his words, 'where she lives?'
-- Mr Merdle took down a countess who was secluded somewhere in the core of an immense dress, to which she was in the proportion of the heart to the overgrown cabbage.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far back on the side of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if you narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would fancy to be a young colt's eye; so out of all proportion is it to the magnitude of the head.
-- Now, as those polar fisheries could only be prosecuted in the short summer of that climate, so that the whole cruise of one of these Dutch whalemen, including the short voyage to and from the Spitzbergen sea, did not much exceed three months, say, and reckoning 30 men to each of their fleet of 180 sail, we have 5,400 Low Dutch seamen in all; therefore, I say, we have precisely two barrels of beer per man, for a twelve weeks' allowance, exclusive of his fair proportion of that 550 ankers of gin.
-- But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the most complicated part; and as nothing is to be repeated concerning it in this chapter, you must not fail to carry it in your mind, or under your arm, as we proceed, otherwise you will not gain a complete notion of the general structure we are about to view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above all, I think' said the lady, fixing her eyes on her son's face, 'that if an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I admire the activity of your benevolence,' observed Mary, 'but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.'
-- Elizabeth was prepared to see him in his glory; and she could not help in fancying that in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he ad-dressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
-- From the entrance-hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and the finished ornaments, they followed the servants through an ante-chamber, to the room where Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs. Jenkinson were sitting.
-- His resentment was in proportion to the distress of his circum-stances and he was doubtless as violent in his abuse of me to others as in his reproaches to myself.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now harvest, and our crop in good order: it was not the most plentiful increase I had seen in the island, but, however, it was enough to answer our end; for from twenty-two bushels of barley we brought in and thrashed out above two hundred and twenty bushels; and the like in proportion of the rice; which was store enough for our food to the next harvest, though all the sixteen Spaniards had been on shore with me; or, if we had been ready for a voyage, it would very plentifully have victualled our ship to have carried us to any part of the world; that is to say, any part of America.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not so the Miss Steeles. They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his family, and all his relations, and no niggardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whom they declared to be the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted. And to be better acquainted therefore, Elinor soon found was their inevitable lot, for as Sir John was entirely on the side of the Miss Steeles, their party would be too strong for opposition, and that kind of intimacy must be submitted to, which consists of sitting an hour or two together in the same room almost every day.
-- "The smallness of the house," said she, "I cannot imagine any inconvenience to them, for it will be in proportion to their family and income."
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