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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only such an assurance as this would have restored hope to those on board the DUNCAN.
-- And on the faith of this assurance marvelous things were expected by the whole party.
-- Glenarvan spoke with such assurance that he thought after all he must have made a mistake in reading the letter.
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：
-- He wore a ruddy-tinted tweed suit and had the weath-er-beaten appearance of one who has spent most of his time in the open air, and yet there was something in his steady eye and the quiet assurance of his bearing which indicated the gentleman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, however, on the repeated positive assurance that he really was Prince Muishkin, and must absolutely see the general on business, the bewildered domestic showed him into a little ante-chamber leading to a waiting-room that adjoined the general's study, there handing him over to another ser-vant, whose duty it was to be in this ante-chamber all the morning, and announce visitors to the general.
-- 'Oh, there I can give you my fullest assurance that she did NOT.
-- Mrs. Epanchin almost sprang up in amazement at his answer, and at the assurance of his tone.
-- This last assurance was satisfactory, at all events.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he examined the keys of the bedroom and the two dressing-room doors, to satisfy himself that these also could be made an assurance of freedom.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were all still intensely ex-cited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law; yet I felt an absolute assurance in my own mind that the Hyena-swine was implicated in the rab-bit-killing.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety?'
-- This appalling declaration, which the scout uttered with the cool assurance of a man who fully comprehended, while he did not fear to face the danger, served to remind Hey-ward of the importance of the charge with which he himself had been intrusted.
-- Al-ice uttered a faint shriek, and even Cora rose to her feet, as this appalling object moved into the light; but a single word from Heyward calmed them, with the assurance it was only their attendant, Chingachgook, who, lifting another blanket, discovered that the cavern had two outlets.
-- While his auditors received a cheering assurance of the security of their place of concealment from this untutored description of Glenn's,* they were much inclined to judge differently from Hawkeye, of its wild beauties.
-- The young man drew a pile of the sassafras from the cave, and placing it in the chasm which separated the two caverns, it was occupied by the sisters, who were thus protected by the rocks from any missiles, while their anxiety was relieved by the assurance that no danger could approach without a warning.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for any object, as the vine can grow on any tree; and the wisdom of the world recognises its strength when it urges a girl to marry the man who wants her with the assurance that love will follow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wept bitterly for the loss of this little creature until the idea occurred to her she did not know how, or why, it came into her head that it might, by some means, fall into the hands of Kit who would keep it for her sake, and think, perhaps, that she had left it behind in the hope that he might have it, and as an assurance that she was grateful to him.
-- His own earnest wish, coupled with the assurance he had received from Quilp, filled him with the belief that she would yet arrive to claim the humble shelter he had offered, and from the death of each day's hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and you have received every assurance of his admiring Pope no more than is proper.
-- In every meeting of the kind Willoughby was included; and the ease and familiarity which naturally attended these parties were exactly calculated to give increasing intimacy to his acquaintance with the Dashwoods, to afford him opportunity of witnessing the excellencies of Marianne, of marking his animated admiration of her, and of receiving, in her behaviour to himself, the most pointed assurance of her affection.
-- Mrs. Jennings repeated her assurance that Mrs. Dashwood could spare them perfectly well; and Elinor, who now understood her sister, and saw to what indifference to almost every thing else she was carried by her eagerness to be with Willoughby again, made no farther direct opposition to the plan, and merely referred it to her mother's decision, from whom however she scarcely expected to receive any support in her endeavour to prevent a visit, which she could not approve of for Marianne, and which on her own account she had particular reasons to avoid.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drouet's assurance now misgave him.
-- The air of assurance and dignity about it all was exceedingly noticeable to the novitiate.
-- He imagined not; but this assurance relieved him.
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