extension是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 延长； 扩大； 范围； 大小； 尺寸； 电话分机，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：
-- The barometer fell sensibly, and indicated an extreme extension of the vapours.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ques-tion at this moment is whether we have not weakened 'the springs of life' by the extension ...' 'Of railways?'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its president is the best money-raiser and the best after-dinner speaker in the United States; and Winnemac was the first school in the world to conduct its extension courses by radio.
-- Only an iron bed, a straight chair, a chromo of St. Anne, and a shadeless hand-lamp on a rickety stand broke the staring shininess of the apartment, a recent extension of the farmhouse.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the oblong dining-room, the inlaid floor of which had been polished by three of his men the day before, and containing a massive oaken sideboard and a similar extension table, the legs of which were carved in the shape of lion's paws, giving it a pompous appearance, breakfast stood ready for him.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I merely gave point to your bosom where the caterpillar was, and instead of running you through checked the extension a thousandth of an inch short of your surface."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Clearly," the Time Traveller proceeded, "any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and Duration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clarriker informing me on that occasion that the affairs of the House were steadily progressing, that he would now be able to establish a small branch-house in the East which was much wanted for the extension of the business, and that Herbert in his new partnership capacity would go out and take charge of it, I found that I must have prepared for a separation from my friend, even though my own affairs had been more settled.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Carrie was ready for any extension of the friendship which might follow.
-- There were impending more complications rent day, and more extension of the credit system in the neighbourhood.
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