描述事物的尺寸常用的英语表达

Size – nouns

depth ‘What’s the depth of the chest of drawers?’

height ‘I’ll measure the height of the cabinet.’

length ‘What’s the length of the table?’

width ‘Can you measure the width of the desk?’

Size – adjectives

deep ‘How deep is the canyon?’

shallow ‘The sea is quite shallow here.’

wide ‘How wide is the road?’

narrow ‘The road was very narrow.’

tall ‘The building is quite tall.’

short ‘The ladder is too short to reach the roof.’

long ‘How long is the table?’

根据上面的单词做下面的练习题。

The river is too _____ to build a bridge across.
light
wide
short
narrow


What’s the _____ of the printer cable?
depth
height
width
length


How _____ is the lake in the middle?
deep
short
tall
light


The road is too _____ for two cars to pass at once; one car has to pull in to let the other pass.
narrow
long
deep
wide


The sea is quite _____ here. I can walk quite easily.
shallow
deep
long
tall


This printer cable is very _____ . Do you have a shorter one?
wide
long
shallow
tall


I can’t reach the books on the top shelf; I’m too _____ .
wide
deep
long
short


The measurement of how wide something is is called its _____ .
width
depth
height
length


I think the wardrobe is going to be too _____ for this room. We’ll need to find a shorter one.
deep
thin
narrow
tall


What _____ will the trees grow to? I don’t want them to block the view.
temperature
depth
weight
height


What’s the _____ of the desk? I’m not sure the computer will fit on it.
depth
temperature
weight
make

答案：
1. wide 2. length 3. deep 4. narrow 5. shallow 6. long 7. short 8. width 9. tall 10 height 11.depth