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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I had started with the Time Machine, I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances.
-- "It's a curious thing," said the Medical Man; "but I certainly don't know the natural order of these flowers.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.
-- It certainly was a very large Gnat: 'about the size of a chicken,' Alice thought.
-- However, on second thoughts, she made up her mind to go on: 'for I certainly won't go back,' she thought to herself, and this was the only way to the Eighth Square.
-- 'But it certainly was funny,' (Alice said afterwards, when she was telling her sister the history of all this,) 'to find myself singing "Here we go round the mulberry bush."
-- (He called it a helmet, though it certainly looked much more like a saucepan.)
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.
-- For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
-- Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.
-- It is a curious thing to understand, for I had certainly never liked the man, though of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon as I saw that he was dead, I burst into a flood of tears.
-- Some of the man's money if he had any was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.
-- For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
-- Certainly I was sure of this devoted boy.
-- And certainly it was possible that they might meet the narwhal in this narrow pass.
-- "No, sir, certainly not," I replied.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They certainly care a great deal more.
-- "I certainly shan't stay five minutes among that little lot," said Gudrun.
-- For I certainly think it was quite uncalled-for, and quite unjustified."
-- Gerald laughed in his throat, and said:"That's certainly one way of looking at it.
-- It has certainly helped me.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This is certainly a beautiful country!In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.
-- Ah, certainly I see now: you are the favoured possessor of the beneficent fairy,' I remarked, turning to my neighbour.
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