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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was obviously made with the assurance that he could not live so long, and was refused.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'that be-ing then not very well with the court, and pressed by many of his friends, he complied with the proposal; and after employing a hundred men for two years, the work miscar-ried, the projectors went off, laying the blame entirely upon him, railing at him ever since, and putting others upon the same experiment, with equal assurance of success, as well as equal disappointment.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The calculations of various life assurance and annuity offices, among other figures which cannot go wrong, have established the fact.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore the peculiar soft assurance of a girl like Con-stance Reid fascinated him.
-- Even Clifford's cool and contactless assurance that he belonged to the rul-ing class didn't prevent his tongue lolling out of his mouth, as he panted after the bitch-goddess.
-- And more-over, he had all the quiet self-contained assurance of the English, no loose edges.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was wholly unprepared for your announcement, and hope that assurance is my sufficient apology for having taken the liberty of addressing you.
-- He entreated Mr Flintwinch to receive the assurance of his profoundest consideration.
-- The said company being now relieved from further attendance, and the chief Barnacles being rather hurried (for they had it in hand just then to send a mail or two which was in danger of going straight to its destination, beating about the seas like the Flying Dutchman, and to arrange with complexity for the stoppage of a good deal of important business otherwise in peril of being done), went their several ways; with all affability conveying to Mr and Mrs Meagles that general assurance that what they had been doing there, they had been doing at a sacrifice for Mr and Mrs Meagles's good, which they always conveyed to Mr John Bull in their official condescension to that most unfortunate creature.
-- I beg your son to receive the assurance of my profound consideration.
-- As though accidents were determined to be favourable to it, they had a new assurance of congeniality in the aversion which each perceived that the other felt towards Blandois of Paris; an aversion amounting to the repugnance and horror of a natural antipathy towards an odious creature of the reptile kind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- for she had thought that no one saw and appreciated her efforts to be good, and this assurance was doubly precious, doubly encouraging, because unex-pected and from the person whose commendation she most valued.
-- Meg re-ceived his humble apology, and was much comforted by the assurance that Brooke knew nothing of the joke.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah: who having consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him.
-- This unexpected offer of shelter was too tempting to be resisted; especially as it was immediately followed up, by the assurance that the old gentleman referred to, would doubtless provide Oliver with a comfortable place, without loss of time.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- MThe very first sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for the winter, and con-cluded with her brother's regret at not having had time to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left the country.
-- His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walking the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane, in order to have the earliest assurance of it, and after making his bow as the carriage turned into the Park, hurried home with the great intelligence.
-- But his pride, his abominable pride his shame-less avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excit-ed.
-- But, how-ever this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage, had it not been seconded by the assurance that I hesitated not in giving, of your sister's indifference.
-- Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain told them he would spare their lives if they would give him an assurance of their abhorrence of the treachery they had been guilty of, and would swear to be faithful to him in re-covering the ship, and afterwards in carrying her back to Jamaica, from whence they came.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She doubted the sincerity of this assurance no more than he had doubted it himself, and she thought of it for her daughters' sake with satisfaction, though as for herself she was persuaded that a much smaller provision than 7000L would support her in affluence.
-- She knew that his mother neither behaved to him so as to make his home comfortable at present, nor to give him any assurance that he might form a home for himself, without strictly attending to her views for his aggrandizement.
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