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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You see," said Billy Smallbury, "The man's will was to do right, sure enough, but his heart didn't chime in."
-- The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
-- Eugene had been dazzled at first by the brilliant assembly, and had scarcely exchanged a few words with the Vicomtesse; he had been content to single out a goddess among this throng of Parisian divinities, one of those women who are sure to attract a young man's fancy.
-- "Oh!sir," said Victorine, with a tearful but eager glance at Vautrin, who showed no sign of being touched by it, "if you know of any way of communicating with my father, please be sure and tell him that his affection and my mother's honor are more to me than all the money in the world.
-- You may be sure of my gratitude----" "_The same old story everywhere_," sang Vautrin, with a satirical intonation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But she will not, I am sure she will not; and then I shall be happy again, even after the sad death of my little William.'
-- I started forward and exclaimed, 'Villain!Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Last Christmas you sure let him buzz round you plenty."
-- She went quietly down the front steps, looking carefully over her shoulder tomake sure Mammy was not observing her from the upstairs windows.
-- "If the nice people of Charleston feel that way, I'm sure we will all feel the same way soon," she said, for she hada deeply rooted belief that, excepting only Savannah, most of the gentle blood of the whole continent could be foundin that small seaport city, a belief shared largely by Charlestonians.
-- The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visitedTwelve Oaks and she'd be sure to remember it.
-- They were sure of themselves and of their environment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I wonder you shouldn't have been sure of that," I returned, "for we heard it up at home, and that's farther away, and we were shut in besides."
-- I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
-- "I am not sure that I shouldn't like to see her again, but I should like to go home now."
-- Saving for the one weird smile at first, I should have felt almost sure that Miss Havisham's face could not smile.
-- This gave me power to keep them back and to look at her: so, she gave a contemptuous toss--but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was so wounded--and left me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- said he, 'I have this load to carry: to be sure it is silver, but it is so heavy that I can't hold up my head, and you must know it hurts my shoulder sadly.'
-- I will put them into my pillow, and then I am sure I shall sleep soundly without rocking.
-- said the shepherd, 'he has not a tooth in his head, and the thieves don't care for him at all; to be sure he has served us, but then he did it to earn his livelihood; tomorrow shall be his last day, depend upon it.'
-- But the youngest said, 'I don't know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.'
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