sure是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 肯定的; 一定会…的; 有信心的, 有把握的,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:
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
-- 'I'm sure he is very rich, Fred,' hinted Scrooge's niece.
-- I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.
-- When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met.
-- There an't such a rusty bit of metal in the place as its own hinges, I believe; and I'm sure there's no such old bones here, as mine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the hors-es; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
-- 'I hope there ain't, but I can't make so 'Nation sure of that,' said the guard, in gruff soliloquy.
-- I am almost sure it was you.'
-- After looking doubtfully at it, two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it.
-- Sure he saw the prison-er with these lists?
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:
-- She always attends to her own serious business herself, as then she is sure of having it done properly.
-- The Watchman's Adventure Why, there is a pair of galoshes, as sure as I'm alive!'
-- 'I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon me, and be a poet myself; I am very sure I should make no such miserable verses as the others.
-- In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best per-sons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth.
-- Many a night have I got up to see if the wind had not changed: and changed it had, sure enough; but you never came.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "To be sure we shall!"
-- But I tell you what; if you want to see them, they're sure now to be at the Zoological Gardens from four to five.
-- 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.
-- "No, joking apart, whatever you choose is sure to be good.
-- "That must be Vronsky," thought Levin, and, to be sure of it, glanced at Kitty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hearing that Mr. Phileas Fogg was looking for a servant, and that his life was one of unbroken regularity, that he neither travelled nor stayed from home overnight, he felt sure that this would be the place he was after.
-- Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg would not land at Suez, but was really going on to Bombay.
-- "Oh, I am quite sure of that!"
-- "You are sure of that?"
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