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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, the next time I had the honour to see our emperor, I desired his general license to wait on the Blefuscudian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, as I could perceive, in a very cold manner; but could not guess the reason, till I had a whisper from a cer-tain person, 'that Flimnap and Bolgolam had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark of dis-affection;' from which I am sure my heart was wholly free.
-- That which gave me most uneasiness among these maids of honour (when my nurse carried me to visit then) was, to see them use me without any manner of ceremony, like a creature who had no sort of consequence: for they would strip themselves to the skin, and put on their smocks in my presence, while I was placed on their toilet, directly before their naked bodies, which I am sure to me was very far from being a tempting sight, or from giving me any other emo-tions than those of horror and disgust: their skins appeared 145so coarse and uneven, so variously coloured, when I saw them near, with a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing farther concerning the rest of their persons.
-- I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grat-ing upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examina-tion, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.
-- I answered, 'it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been of-ten apt to amuse myself with visions of what I should do, if I were a king, a general, or a great lord: and upon this very case, I had frequently run over the whole system how I should employ myself, and pass the time, if I were sure to live for ever.
-- That whoever had one foot in the grave was sure to hold back the other as strongly as he could.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatsoever the public meeting held in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some Coketowner was sure to seize the occasion of alluding to his eminently practical friend Gradgrind.
-- I am sure you have enough to do, if that's what you want.
-- B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
-- 'Be sure you know your own mind, Jupe,' Mr. Gradgrind cautioned her; 'I say no more.
-- Be sure you know your own mind!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And yet," he muttered to himself, "it is old Icelandic, I am sure of it."
-- If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any immediate eruption."
-- "When our water bottles are empty, we are not at all sure that we shall be able to fill them," observed my uncle.
-- "I am sure of it."
-- "Again," thought I, reasoning as calmly as was possible, "there is another sure means of not losing my way, a thread to guide me through the labyrinthine subterraneous retreat--one which I had forgotten--my faithful river."
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：
-- replied Clifford, translating the phrase to be sure of it.
-- May I be sure you don't hate me? and that you won't?
-- Anyhow, he was a curious, quick, separate fellow, alone, but sure of himself.
-- Once he was 'well', once he was back at Wragby, and writing his stories, and feeling sure of life, in spite of all, he seemed to forget, and to have recov-ered all his equanimity.
-- Connie looked, and there, sure enough, was a big black cat, stretched out grimly, with a bit of blood on it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then you may be sure there is none.
-- 'Don't mention it,' returned Mr Meagles, 'I am sure you are quite welcome.
-- Yet,' looking full upon her, 'you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their business to do with you, and who will do it.
-- Many years ago, it had had it in its mind to slide down sideways; it had been propped up, however, and was leaning on some half-dozen gigantic crutches: which gymnasium for the neighbouring cats, weather-stained, smoke-blackened, and overgrown with weeds, appeared in these latter days to be no very sure reliance.
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