Extent

(noun.) the distance or area or volume over which something extends; 'the vast extent of the desert'; 'an orchard of considerable extent'.

(noun.) the point or degree to which something extends; 'the extent of the damage'; 'the full extent of the law'; 'to a certain extent she was right'.

校对:梅勒妮

• It demonstrated the extent of her Westernization. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Under these circumstances my first impression altered to a certain extent. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am quite ready to go in for it, to the same extent as if I believed it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Why, yes, he said, to that extent the people do share. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The grounds were more than an acre and a quarter in extent, and they were filled with people! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Why should a man scrape himself to that extent, before he could consider himself full dressed? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• After which strong avowal Bella underwent reaction, and cried to any extent, with her face on the back of her chair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You would get to know the extent of your power too clearly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Possibly they mingled to a certain extent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But what do you say of music, which also entered to a certain extent into our former scheme? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His abilities, in both these respects, are generally in proportion to the extent of his stock, or to the number of people whom it can employ. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He knew to the full extent only through experience, what a large place in his life was left blank when her familiar little figure went out of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mrs. Bagnet forgets the day to the extent of filling a pipe and a glass for Mr. Bucket and waiting upon him hospitably. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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