uncertain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无常的； 不确定的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had no alternative but to descend the opposite slope and enter the narrow gorges, uncertain whether any outlet existed.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stars shone cold and bright, while a half-moon bathed the whole scene in a soft, uncertain light.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Year after year, so much allowance for the drifting of the boat, so many miles an hour the flowing of the stream, here the rushes, there the lilies, nothing uncertain or unquiet, upon this road that steadily runs away; while you, upon your flowing road of time, are so capricious and distracted.
-- Year after year so much allowance for the drifting of the ferry-boat, so many miles an hour the flowing of the stream, here the rushes, there the lilies, nothing uncertain or unquiet.
-- Or had the suspicion been brought into his mind, by his own associations of the troubled river running beneath the bridge with the same river higher up, its changeless tune upon the prow of the ferry-boat, so many miles an hour the peaceful flowing of the stream, here the rushes, there the lilies, nothing uncertain or unquiet?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt I ought to do it, for life is uncertain and I don't want any ill feeling over my tomb.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating himself between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me.
-- From Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names.
-- So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
-- No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and much lee-way adown the dim ages.
-- So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked to the right and to the left, uncertain whither to fly.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
-- Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small for-tune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is an engagement in some respects not prosperously begun, for their marriage must be at a very uncertain distance; and even secrecy, as far as it can be observed, may now be very advisable."
-- Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby's service, by her mother.
-- Their opportunity of acquaintance in the house of Mr. Pratt was a foundation for the rest, at once indisputable and alarming; and Edward's visit near Plymouth, his melancholy state of mind, his dissatisfaction at his own prospects, his uncertain behaviour towards herself, the intimate knowledge of the Miss Steeles as to Norland and their family connections, which had often surprised her, the picture, the letter, the ring, formed altogether such a body of evidence, as overcame every fear of condemning him unfairly, and established as a fact, which no partiality could set aside, his ill-treatment of herself. Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself; but other ideas, other considerations, soon arose.
-- He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business.
-- By their uncertain light she thought she could discern it to be drawn by four horses; and this, while it told the excess of her poor mother's alarm, gave some explanation to such unexpected rapidity.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time, she would not delay to inflict any injury, big or little, which would wound the object of her revenge and still leave him uncertain as to the source of the evil.
-- "Now, Miss Madenda," he said, addressing Carrie, who stood in one part uncertain as to what move to make, "you don't want to stand like that.
-- He was uncertain as to whether she was joking or not.
-- Drouet hesitated, now that he was in her presence, uncertain as to what course to pursue.
-- She took the letter the next morning, and at the corner dropped it reluctantly into the letter-box, still uncertain as to whether she should do so or not.
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