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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- "Very well, my worthy harpooner, if some vertebrate, several hundred yards long, and large in proportion, can maintain itself in such depths of those whose surface is represented by millions of square inches, that is by tens of millions of pounds, we must estimate the pressure they undergo.
-- Therefore, to estimate the value of this collection was simply impossible.
-- "AEGRI SOMNIA"The following day 10th January, the Nautilus continued her course between two seas, but with such remarkable speed that I could not estimate it at less than thirty-five miles an hour.
-- Could not you, sir, estimate their maximum?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man accompanied these latter words with a wink, expressive of the estimate he had formed of the travellers' finances.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had got to such a low estimate of her kind that I did not expect any gratitude from her.
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