certainly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 一定, 必定, 无疑; 当然, 行,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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man was certainly not old at forty; and many men were not in circumstances to marry, or did not marry, until they had attained that time of life.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The small-ness of the company made it necessary for the two principal actors to take several parts apiece, and they certainly de-served some credit for the hard work they did in learning three or four different parts, whisking in and out of various costumes, and managing the stage besides.
-- It certainly was agreeable to fare sumptuously, drive in a fine carriage, wear her best frock every day, and do nothing but enjoy herself.
-- He certainly did add 'spirit' to the meetings, and 'a tone' to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contri-butions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.
-- I should certainly have boiled over if I hadn't stayed among the nettles till I got my rage under control enough to hold my tongue..
-- I shall certainly laugh if you do.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
-- But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
-- But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.
-- When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed.
-- They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew, upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital, sore exhausted and worn out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It certainly was, for there was quite enough water in it already.
-- Certainly not!'
-- 'Certainly not,' replied the Jew, reciprocating the grin with which Charley put the question.
-- 'Certainly not,' replied Duff.
-- 'They--they certainly had a boy.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I certainly HAVE had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordi-nary now.
-- A fortnight's acquain-tance is certainly very little.
-- 'I certainly shall not.
-- Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him.
-- 'Certainly not at first.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- Had I used half as much pru-dence to have looked into my own interest, and have made a judgment of what I ought to have done and not to have done, I had certainly never gone away from so prosperous an undertaking, leaving all the probable views of a thriving circumstance, and gone upon a voyage to sea, attended with all its common hazards, to say nothing of the reasons I had to expect particular misfortunes to myself.
-- It continued raining all that night and great part of the next day, so that I could not stir abroad; but my mind being more composed, I began to think of what I had best do; concluding that if the island was subject to these earthquakes, there would be no living for me in a cave, but I must consider of building a little hut in an open place which I might surround with a wall, as I had done here, and so make myself secure from wild beasts or men; for I conclud-ed, if I stayed where I was, I should certainly one time or other be buried alive.
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