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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hermione, who brooded and brooded till she was exhausted with the ache of her effort at consciousness, spent and ashen in her body, who gained so slowly and with such effort her final and barren conclusions of knowledge, was apt, in the presence of other women, whom she thought simply female, to wear the conclusions of her bitter assurance like jewels which conferred on her an unquestionable distinction, established her in a higher order of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the old gentleman had said all he had to say in the way of promise and advice, and Kit had said all he had to say in the way of assurance and thankfulness, he was handed over again to the old lady, who, summoning the little servant-girl (whose name was Barbara) instructed her to take him down stairs and give him something to eat and drink, after his walk.
-- No doubt with the same amiable desire, he immediately resumed his knife and fork, as a practical assurance that the beer had wrought no bad effect upon his appetite.
-- Now, the only question is, as they will not know me, and the child, God bless her, would think that any stranger pursuing them had a design upon her grandfather's liberty can I do better than take this lad, whom they both know and will readily remember, as an assurance to them of my friendly intentions?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You certainly cannot stick to two things," said the chief warden, with official assurance of his own wit.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the time, with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread, I knew that such assurance was folly, knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that I had a moment to myself, I lost no time in changing the priming of my pistol, and then, having one ready for service, and to make assurance doubly sure, I proceeded to draw the load of the other and recharge it afresh from the beginning.
-- To make assurance surer, I got upon my hands and knees and crawled, without a sound, towards the corner of the house.
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