certain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 某， 某一， 某些； (of) 一定的， 确信的， 可靠的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Ghost stopped at a certain warehouse door, and asked Scrooge if he knew it.
-- For his pretending not to know her; his pretending that it was necessary to touch her head-dress, and further to assure himself of her identity by pressing a certain ring upon her finger, and a certain chain about her neck; was vile, monstrous.
-- 'Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,' said Scrooge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.
-- That, it was certain the prisoner had, for longer than that, been in the habit of pass-ing and repassing between France and England, on secret business of which he could give no honest account.
-- 'On a certain Friday night in November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, did business occasion you to travel between London and Dover by the mail?'
-- Have you seen him, to your certain knowledge, before?'
-- On the after-noon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had roiled over the trial for treason, and carried it, as to the public interest and memory, far out to sea, Mr. Jarvis Lorry walked along the sunny streets from Clerkenwell where he lived, on his way to dine with the Doctor.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some one will make a mistake for certain and take the wrong ones he will be a happy man.'
-- Behold there are certain things in the world to which one ought never to give utterance except with the greatest caution; but doubly careful must one be when we have the Shoes of Fortune on our feet.
-- The house was filled to suf-focation; and among other pieces to be recited was a new poem by H. C. Andersen, called, My Aunt's Spectacles; the contents of which were pretty nearly as follows: 'A certain person had an aunt, who boasted of particular 42 Andersen's Fairy Talesskill in fortune-telling with cards, and who was constant-ly being stormed by persons that wanted to have a peep into futurity.
-- But she was full of mystery about her art, in which a certain pair of magic spectacles did her essential service.
-- In that lady yonder, so strangely dressed, I should find for certain a large milliner's shop; in that one the shop is empty, but it wants cleaning plain enough.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And for him, living in a certain society--owing to the need, ordinarily developed at years of discretion, for some degree of mental activity--to have views was just as indispensable as to have a hat.
-- With his characteristic quickwittedness he caught the drift of each innuendo, divined whence it came, at whom and on what ground it was aimed, and that afforded him, as it always did, a certain satisfaction.
-- Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half-long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly-drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat--all this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings.
-- When Levin darted up to Kitty her face was no longer stern; her eyes looked at him with the same sincerity and friendliness, but Levin fancied that in her friendliness there was a certain note of deliberate composure.
-- Chapter 10 When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.
-- "I concede that; but then, you know, all descriptions ""I'll make certain of it," interrupted Fix.
-- A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority; and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent.
-- Among the dishes served up to him, the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet of "native rabbit," on which he prided himself.
-- He was quite ignorant that it is forbidden to Christians to enter certain Indian temples, and that even the faithful must not go in without first leaving their shoes outside the door.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not certain that, in attaching himself to Doc Vickerson, Martin was entirely and edifyingly controlled by a desire to become a Great Healer.
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