assurance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 保证， 担保； 确信， 断言； 信心， 信念，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：
-- He spoke with the diffidence of a man who knew how slight a thing would overset the delicate organisation of the mind, and yet with the confidence of a man who had slowly won his assurance out of personal endurance and distress.
-- 'From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour 342 A tale of two citiestend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sent the men to mow some clover for hay, picking out the worst patches where the clover was overgrown with grass and weeds and of no use for seed; again and again they mowed the best acres of clover, justifying themselves by the pretense that the bailiff had told them to, and trying to pacify him with the assurance that it would be splendid hay; but he knew that it was owing to those acres being so much easier to mow.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Parents' associations he enlightened upon "the saving in doctors' bills of treating the child before maladjustments go too far,' but to physicians he gave assurance that public health agitation would merely make the custom of going regularly to doctors more popular.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I have felt-we both have felt, I may say; my sister being fully in myconfidence- that it is right you should receive this grave anddispassionate assurance from our lips.'
-- Nothing but the serious assurance of his friend Copperfield to thecontrary, he observed, could deprive him of the impression that hisfriend Copperfield loved and was beloved.
-- Although I think Ihad never really feared it, in any season of cool reflection, it was anunspeakable relief to me to have this assurance from her owntruthful lips.
-- I rather think that neither the blow, nor 574the allusion, would have escaped me, but for the assurance I hadhad from Agnes that night.
-- Iknow, and never can forget, that there was that in her wild mannerwhich gave me no assurance but that she would sink before myeyes, until I had her arm within my grasp.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- 'Dear affectionate creature! You banished to Abbey-Mill Farm! You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life!I wonder how the young man could have the assurance to ask it.
-- If they are anxious to see you happily married, here is a man whose amiable character gives every assurance of it; if they wish to have you settled in the same country and circle which they have chosen to place you in, here it will be accomplished; and if their only object is that you should, in the common phrase, be well married, here is the comfortable fortune, the respectable establishment, the rise in the world which must satisfy them.'
-- Certainly his being at Randalls had given great spirit to the last two weeks indescribable spirit; the idea, the expectation of seeing him which every morning had brought, the assurance of his attentions, his liveliness, his manners!It had been a very happy fortnight, and forlorn must be the sinking from it into the common course of Hartfield days.
-- This was the amount of the whole story, of his commu-nication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech. He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have a nice snug little farm," said Gabriel, with half a degree less assurance than when he had seized her hand.
-- "I am driving to Bath," she said, taking for her own use the assurance that Gabriel lacked.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He grew calmer, and recovered something of his assurance as he watched the falling rain.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She is innocent, my Elizabeth,' said I, 'and that shall be proved; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of her acquittal.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No pangof conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth andcharm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
-- Despite privation andhardships, despite food speculators and kindred scourges, despite death and sickness and suffering which had now lefttheir mark on nearly every family, the South was again saying "One more victory and the war is over," saying it witheven more happy assurance than in the summer before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall buy up some good Life Assurance shares, and cut into the Direction.
-- There was no discrepancy of years between us to remove her far from me; we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more in her case than in mine; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.
-- Sending her out to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her with the malicious assurance that she was beyond the reach of all admirers, and that all who staked upon that cast were secured to lose.
-- I said that I did not blame him, or suspect him, or mistrust him, but I wanted assurance of the truth from him.
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