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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty little girl, who begged to be directed to a certain street at a considerable distance, and indeed in quite another quarter of the town.
-- I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this?
-- One lady (a widow) was quite certain she should stab him if he hinted at it.
-- CHAPTER 5Whether Mr Quilp took any sleep by snatches of a few winks at a time, or whether he sat with his eyes wide open all night long, certain it is that he kept his cigar alight, and kindled every fresh one from the ashes of that which was nearly consumed, without requiring the assistance of a candle.
-- He might not have done so even then, but for certain impatient tapping at the door he seemed to denote that some pretty hard knuckles were actively engaged upon the other side.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the choice of two things before her; either the humiliating occupation of a servant, with the certain unwelcome attentions of the men, or a secure, quiet and legitimatized position of everybody's mistress.
-- He was certain that his feeling toward Katiousha was but a manifestation of that joy which pervaded his entire being, and which was shared by that lovely, cheerful girl.
-- The jail is open to visitors on certain days only.
-- It was a tiresome rhapsody by Lizst, well played, but only to a certain place.
-- The rhapsody again went on at full speed, when suddenly, reaching a certain point, it came to a stand-still and a voice from within was heard.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.
-- The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another a quiet, shy man with a beard whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
-- "Don't let me disturb you," he said, with a certain faltering articulation.
-- His glance flickered over our faces with a certain dull approval, and then went round the warm and comfortable room.
-- But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread until at last they took complete possession of me.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shouldn't like to lose it at all because they'd have to give me another, and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one.
-- said Alice, passing on to Tweedledee, though she felt quite certain he would only shout out 'Contrariwise!'
-- 'I'm as certain of it, as if his name were written all over his face.'
-- 'Well, a "rath" is a sort of green pig: but "mome" I'm not certain about.
-- 'The cause of lightning,' Alice said very decidedly, for she felt quite certain about this, 'is the thunder no, no!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I ask you to take certain precautions or let me resign my berth.
-- But as I was certain I should not be allowed to leave the enclosure, my only plan was to take French leave and slip out when nobody was watching, and that was so bad a way of doing it as made the thing itself wrong.
-- As I continued to thread the tall woods, I could hear from far before me not only the continuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the sea breeze had set in higher than usual.
-- I was on the lee side of the forecastle, and the mainsail, which was still drawing, concealed from me a certain portion of the after-deck.
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