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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin Arrowsmith was not exactly certain what this meant and he enthusiastically did not care.
-- There was a certain fondness for him in Digamma Pi; Fatty was soft, Fatty was superstitious, Fatty was an imbecile, yet they had for him the annoyed affection they might have had for a second-hand motor or a muddy dog.
-- Occasionally, on Sundays or rainy days, he tried to read it, and longed for the laboratory; occasionally he thought of Madeline Fox, and became certain that he was devastatingly lonely for her.
-- I was a follower of Helmholtz--what a wild blithering young fellow!I tried to make researches in the physics of sound--I was bad, most unbelievable, but I learned that in this wale of tears there is nothing certain but the quantitative method.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since there are times when one absolutely must go somewhere!When my own daughter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go 芒聙娄 (for my daughter has a yellow passport),' he add-ed in parenthesis, looking with a certain uneasiness at the young man.
-- But a minute later his face suddenly changed and with a certain assumed slyness and affectation of bra-vado, he glanced at Raskolnikov, laughed and said: 'This morning I went to see Sonia, I went to ask her for a pick-me-up!He-he-he!'
-- His words had created a certain impression; there was a moment of silence; but soon laughter and oaths were heard again.
-- And as for some defects of character, for some habits and even certain differences of opinion which indeed are inevitable even in the happiest marriages Dounia has said that, as regards all that, she relies on herself, that there is nothing to be uneasy about, and that she is ready to put up with a great deal, if only their future relationship can be an honourable and straightforward one.
-- If possible, I would set-tle somewhere near you, for the most joyful piece of news, dear Rodya, I have kept for the end of my letter: know then, my dear boy, that we may, perhaps, be all together in a very short time and may embrace one another again after a sep-aration of almost three years!It is settled for certain that Dounia and I are to set off for Petersburg, exactly when I don't know, but very, very soon, possibly in a week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in thisrespect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost thefaculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observesuch men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacityof being pleased, which are also an inheritance they havepreserved from their childhood.
-- 42We strolled a long way, and loaded ourselves with things that wethought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back intothe water- I hardly know enough of the race at this moment to bequite certain whether they had reason to feel obliged to us fordoing so, or the reverse- and then made our way home to Mr.Peggotty's dwelling.
-- I never hear the name, or read thename, of Yarmouth, but I am reminded of a certain Sundaymorning on the beach, the bells ringing for church, little Em'lyleaning on my shoulder, Ham lazily dropping stones into thewater, and the sun, away at sea, just breaking through the heavymist, and showing us the ships.
-- I am not certain whether I found out then orafterwards, that, without being actively concerned in any business,he had some share in, or some annual charge upon the profits of, awine-merchant's house in London, with which his family had beenconnected from his great-grandfather's time, and in which hissister had a similar interest; but I may mention it in this place,whether or no.
-- One night when Miss Murdstone had beendeveloping certain household plans to her brother, of which hesignified his approbation, my mother suddenly began to cry, andsaid she thought she might have been consulted.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vigorous, decided, with sentiments to a certain point, not coarse.
-- The attentions of a certain person can hardly be among the tittle-tattle of Highbury yet.
-- That Mr. and Mrs. Weston did think of it, she was very strongly persuaded; and though not meaning to be induced by him, or by any body else, to give up a situation which she believed more replete with good than any she could change it for, she had a great curiosity to see him, a decided intention of find-ing him pleasant, of being liked by him to a certain degree, and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled in their friends' imaginations.
-- But I know they will, because it is a family that a certain lady, of some consequence, at Enscombe, has a particular dislike to: and though it is thought necessary to invite them once in two or three years, they always are put off when it comes to the point.
-- 'Yes it seems to depend upon nothing but the ill-hu-mour of Mrs. Churchill, which I imagine to be the most certain thing in the world.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The smaller of its hands, too, occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
-- But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across one of his fields on a certain December morning sunny and exceedingly mild might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these.
-- But there is such a thing as being too generous in expressing a judgment impulsively, and Oak added with a more appreciative sense of all the circumstances "Well, I am not quite certain it was no harm."
-- Separation, which was the means that chance offered to Gabriel Oak by Bathsheba's disappearance, though effectual with people of certain humours, is apt to idealize the removed object with others notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
-- "He is," said Henery, implying that irony must cease at a certain point.
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