firmly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 坚定地， 坚固地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before long, the consideration that there was no disgrace in the fate he must meet, and that numbers went the same road wrongfully, and trod it firmly every day, sprang up to stimulate him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned round anew, firmly convinced that he was se-riously ill.
-- So they fell upon it with such violence that all its branches cracked; if it had not been fixed firmly in the ground, it would certainly have tumbled down.
-- There she beheld Kay: she recognised him, flew to embrace him, and cried out, her arms firmly hold-ing him the while, 'Kay, sweet little Kay!Have I then found you at last?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them--or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.
-- Levin had meant to tell his brother of his determination to get married, and to ask his advice; he had indeed firmly resolved to do so.
-- She saw that girls of Kitty's age formed some sort of clubs, went to some sort of lectures, mixed freely in men's society; drove about the streets alone, many of them did not curtsey, and, what was the most important thing, all the girls were firmly convinced that to choose their husbands was their own affair, and not their parents'.
-- Levin was firmly convinced that if the buckwheat had been scorched, it was only because the precautions had not been taken, for which he had hundreds of times given orders.
-- Your too animated conversation this evening with Count Vronsky" (he enunciated the name firmly and with deliberate emphasis) "attracted attention."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branches of a tree, was resolving an idea which had at first struck him like a flash, and which was now firmly lodged in his brain.
-- A high mast was fixed on the frame, held firmly by metallic lashings, to which was attached a large brigantine sail.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By midsummer they were firmly re-engaged and, though he was slightly disturbed by the cashier, a young and giggling Wisconsin school-teacher with ankles, he so longed for Madeline that he lay awake thinking of giving up his job and fleeing to her caresses-- lay awake for minutes at a time.
-- A janitor was closing the windows, very firmly and suggestively.
-- He began firmly to believe that the Rockefeller investigators had found the cause of flu.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in spite of Pyotr Petrovitch's evasiveness, very natural at present (since he does not know you), Dounia is firmly persuaded that she will gain everything by her good influence over her future husband; this she is reckoning upon.
-- He bent down over the stone, seized the top of it firmly in both hands, and using all his strength turned it over.
-- 'I should like to,' Zametov answered firmly and serious-ly.
-- This was too much for Razumihin; he gripped him firmly by the shoulder.
-- 'I can have no other opinion of your daughter's future husband,' Razumihin answered firmly and with warmth, 'and I don't say it simply from vulgar politeness, but because 芒聙娄 simply because Avdotya Romanovna has of her own free will deigned to accept this man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might be firm, andmust be; but only in bearing their firmness, and firmly believingthere was no other firmness upon earth.
-- 'My first master willsucceed me- I am in earnest at last- so you'll soon have to arrangeour contracts, and to bind us firmly to them, like a couple ofknaves.'
-- I then toldSteerforth that my aunt was in town awaiting me (as I found fromher letter), and that she had taken lodgings for a week at a kind ofprivate hotel in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where there was a stonestaircase, and a convenient door in the roof, my aunt being firmly 322persuaded that every house in London was going to be burnt downevery night.
-- I firmly believe there is nothing.
-- He put his hand down firmly on the table, andset his sunburnt face into a resolute expression.
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