estimate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 估计, 估价 v. 评价, 估量，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot estimate the distance traversed by the balloon at less than six to seven thousand miles, and, even supposing that the wind had varied half a quarter, it must have brought us either to the archipelago of Mendava, either on the Pomotous, or even, if it had a greater strength than I suppose, to the land of New Zealand.
-- From this point his eye, accustomed to estimate heights and distances, was fixed for a long time on the cone, the summit of which he wished to reach the next day.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His conclusion, his estimate of the 'moment,' doubtless contained some error, yet the reality of the sensation troubled him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And undoubtedly it would have been a very large one, if only a twentieth part of the gentlemen without grooms had had occasion to alight; but they had not; and it is often an ill-natured circumstance like this, which spoils the most ingenious estimate in the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier I did not estimate the dis-tance at that time, but afterwards when I traversed it it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of all the cunning and ingenuity of the German steward, who would try to tempt him into purchases by making his original estimate always far larger than really required, and then representing to Vronsky that he might get the thing cheaper, and so make a profit, Vronsky did not give in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:From London to Suez via Mont Cenis andBrindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 daysFrom Suez to Bombay, by steamer .................... 13 "From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ................... 3 "From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ............. 13 "From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer ..... 6 "From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ......... 22 "From San Francisco to New York, by rail ............. 7 "From New York to London, by steamer and rail ........ 9 " -------Total ............................................ 80 days."
-- "But, Mr. Fogg, eighty days are only the estimate of the least possible time in which the journey can be made."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will beyour duty, and it will be your pleasure too- of course I know that; Iam not delivering a lecture- to estimate her (as you chose her) bythe qualities she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
-- After a careful consideration of these, and anelaborate estimate of his resources, he had come to the conclusionto select that sum which represented the amount with compoundinterest to two years, fifteen calendar months, and fourteen days,from that date.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you were as much guided by nature in your estimate of men and women, and as little under the power of fan-cy and whim in your dealings with them, as you are where these children are concerned, we might always think alike.'
-- She had not deserved it; she had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and quarrel-ling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own but still, from family at-tachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with an en-deavour to improve her, and an anxiety for her doing right, which no other creature had at all shared.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had Gabriel been able from the first to get a distinct view of her countenance, his estimate of it as very handsome or slightly so would have been as his soul required a divinity at the moment or was ready supplied with one.
-- It was a picture full of misery, but for a while she contemplated it firmly, allowing herself, nevertheless, as girls will, to dwell upon the happy life she would have enjoyed had Troy been Boldwood, and the path of love the path of duty inflicting upon herself gratuitous tortures by imagining him the lover of another woman after forgetting her; for she had penetrated Troy's nature so far as to estimate his tendencies pretty accurately, but unfortunately loved him no less in thinking that he might soon cease to love her indeed, considerably more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then, Herbert, estimate; estimate it in round numbers, and put it down."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father, chance then threw into my way a new acquaintance; a man such as I had had no experience of; used to the world; light, polished, easy; making no pretences; avowing the low estimate of everything, that I was half afraid to form in secret; conveying to me almost immediately, though I don't know how or by what degrees, that he understood me, and read my thoughts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I brought him out of the office door by the collar, that the very porter might know I was a practical man who appreciated the official estimate of such characters; and here we are!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arthimetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I think every one MUST admire it," replied Elinor, "who ever saw the place; though it is not to be supposed that any one can estimate its beauties as we do."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She conceived a true estimate of Drouet.
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：
-- 'He is a soldier, and knows how to estimate the chances of the woods.'
-- It is possible that Heyward's estimate of danger differed in some degree from that of the scout, for, instead of re-plying, he now sat in silence, while the canoe glided over several miles of water.
-- Duncan, who was not altogether as easy under this nice estimate of distances as his companions, was glad to find, however, that owing to their superior dexterity, and the diversion among their enemies, they were very sensibly ob-taining the advantage.
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