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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His gaze was fixed intently on a certain dark speck in the heavens.
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：
-- 'Yes, it is a statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family.'
-- This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.
-- Now, it opened into a broad space in which stood two of those great stones, still to be seen there, which were set by certain forgotten peoples in the days of old.
-- Now, you would call it a guess, no doubt, but I am almost certain that this address has been written in a hotel.'
-- It was certain that I could not help with those.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sort of character is met with pretty frequently in a certain class.
-- 'Don't flatter yourself, my boy,' said he; 'she's not for such as you; she's a princess, she is, and her name is Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff, and she lives with Totski, who wishes to get rid of her because he's growing rather old fiftyfive or so and wants to marry a certain beauty, the loveliest woman in all Petersburg.'
-- General Epanchin, as ev-eryone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a wellto-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.
-- It was a matter of general knowledge that the three girls were very fond of one another, and supported each oth-er in every way; it was even said that the two elder ones had made certain sacrifices for the sake of the idol of the household, Aglaya.
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there was a certain rich and honourable man among the Trojans, priest of Vulcan, and his name was Dares.
-- They all held their peace; but there was among the Trojans a certain man named Dolon, son of Eumedes, the famous herald a man rich in gold and bronze.
-- Now there is a certain town, Thryoessa, perched upon a rock on the river Alpheus, the border city Pylus.
-- Now there is a certain huge cavern in the depths of the sea midway between Tenedos and rocky Imbrus; here Nep-tune lord of the earthquake stayed his horses, unyoked them, and set before them their ambrosial forage.
-- Now there was a certain man named Euchenor, son of Polyidus the prophet, a brave man and wealthy, whose home was in Corinth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H. G. Wells CONTENTS I The strange Man's Arrival II Mr. Teddy Henfrey's first Impressions III The thousand and one Bottles IV Mr. Cuss interviews the Stranger V The Burglary at the Vicarage VI The Furniture that went mad VII The Unveiling of the Stranger VIII In Transit IX Mr. Thomas Marvel X Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping XI In the "Coach and Horses" XII The invisible Man loses his Temper XIII Mr. Marvel discusses his Resignation XIV At Port Stowe XV The Man who was running XVI In the "Jolly Cricketers" XVII Dr. Kemp's Visitor XVIII The invisible Man sleeps XIX Certain first Principles XX At the House in Great Portland Street XXI In Oxford Street XXII In the Emporium XXIII In Drury Lane XXIV The Plan that failed XXV The Hunting of the invisible Man XXVI The Wicksteed Murder XXVII The Siege of Kemp's House XXVIII The Hunter hunted The Epilogue CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
-- Then he swung round and approached the table with a certain eager quickness.
-- And him a new guest and wanting to stay!Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.
-- "But I'm really glad to have the clock seen to," he said, seeing a certain hesitation in Mr. Henfrey's manner.
-- "You are certain that is the earliest?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats.
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- I thought I detected a certain suspi-cion in his eyes.
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