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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' said the lord of the castle, 'if you will pass the night down there in the old tower, go thither; but I warn you, it is at the peril of your life, for it is full of wild dogs, which bark and howl without stopping, and at certain hours a man has to be given to them, whom they at once devour.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He desired 'I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me; for probably I might carry about me sever-al weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.'
-- We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance.
-- In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
-- The author has his liberty granted him upon certain conditions.
-- '7th, That the said man-mountain shall, at his times of leisure, be aiding and assisting to our workmen, in helping to raise certain great stones, towards covering the wall of the principal park, and other our royal buildings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
-- MRS. SPARSITMr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
-- Now, you know, I am certain of that, beforehand.'
-- 'And next, for that I know your heart, and am right sure and certain that 'tis far too merciful to let her die, or even so much as suffer, for want of aid.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Large spectacles hid, to a certain extent, his vast, round, and goggle eyes, while his nose was irreverently compared to a thin file.
-- He did not pretend, like a certain learned pundit, to speak the two thousand languages and four thousand idioms made use of in different parts of the globe, but he did know all the more important ones.
-- No doubt a certain sentence has been written out and then jumbled up--some plan to which some figure is the clue.
-- The letters of every alphabet have only a certain number of combinations.
-- To a certain extent I was anxious to be off.
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：
-- An outcast, in a certain sense; but with the desperate bravery of his rat-like existence.
-- 'I think he has a certain sort of generosity.'
-- Yet the un-scrupulousness of Michaelis had a certain fascination for her.
-- 'You've got to have a certain amount of it to be able to live and get along...even to be free to THINK you must have a certain amount of money, or your stomach stops you.
-- 'Precisely!I have my mind: I have certain calculations to make in certain astronomical matters that concern me almost more than life or death.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he made the little pause, he had looked round the prison-room, as if for certain information.
-- He had a certain air of being a handsome man which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man which he was not.
-- With the coldest of farewells, and with a certain worn expression on her beauty that gave it, though scarcely yet in its prime, a wasted look, she left the room.
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