事情有多大、多嚴重
同一把尺量的不再是土地，而是一件事延伸到多大——所以常用在災情、損害、傷勢這類會擴散的東西上。
seriousness or scale · noun · B2
How large, serious, or important something is, especially a problem or injury.
程度／規模
核心畫面
Picture running your finger along something to find out where it stops — the far edge of a piece of land, the last row of damaged crops. This word names how far the thing reaches. English then lifts that measuring off the ground: how far a problem reaches, and even how far a statement holds true.
可以想成：用手指沿著一樣東西摸過去，看它到哪裡為止——一塊地的邊界、災損延伸到第幾排作物。這個字說的就是「它伸到多遠…更多收起
可以想成：用手指沿著一樣東西摸過去，看它到哪裡為止——一塊地的邊界、災損延伸到第幾排作物。這個字說的就是「它伸到多遠」。接著英文把這把尺從地面拿起來：一個問題延伸到多大，甚至一句話成立到什麼程度。From the picture
成立到什麼程度
最抽象的一層：量的是一句話能成立到哪裡——同意，但只同意到某個點。
degree to which true · noun · B2
How far something is true, or how big its effect is.
程度
Also in this word
size or area covered · noun · B2
The length, size, or area that something covers.
範圍／面積
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
extentnoun/ɪkˈstɛnt/
- 1
A range of values or locations.
- 2
The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
- I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
- The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsA contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- Each extent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes each extent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in the extent, and the number of clusters in the extent.
- 4
The valuation of property.
- 5
lawA writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
- Well, push him out of doors; And let my officers of such a nature Make an extent upon his house and lands. Do this expediently, and turn him going.
extentadj/ɪkˈstɛnt/
- 1
obsoleteExtended.
- But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。