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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well now, the man at the helm has only to give a turn at the wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as to Concepcion; and since it is only a pleasure trip that you are—"His proposal was met by such grave, disapproving shakes of the head, that he stopped short before the sentence was completed; and Lady Helena said:"Monsieur Paganel, if we were only on a pleasure trip, I should reply, ‘Let us all go to India together,' and I am sure Lord Glenarvan would not object; but the DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination."
-- "I am not sure of it."
-- "And besides, to speak the truth, we are not sure if that is their name."
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：
-- 'My dear fellow, how can you possibly be so sure of that?'
-- 'I was not sure whether I had left it here or in the Shipping Office.
-- I feel sure that if Sir Charles could have spoken with me before his death he would have warned me against bringing this, the last of the old race, and the heir to great wealth, to that deadly place.
-- When taken in conjunc-tion with your uncle's death I am not sure that of all the five hundred cases of capital importance which I have han-dled there is one which cuts so deep.
-- 'Well, I couldn't be sure of that, but I dare say my fare knew all about it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hey, my boy, we'll get her some proper earrings now!We'll get her such earrings that ' 'Look here,' cried Rogojin, seizing him fiercely by the arm, 'look here, if you so much as name Nastasia Philipov-na again, I'll tan your hide as sure as you sit there!'
-- Sure enough, the train was just steaming in as he spoke.
-- Your appearance led me to think but just wait for the secretary; the general is busy now, but the secretary is sure to come out.'
-- But they are sure to receive me, I should think; Madame Epanchin will naturally be curious to see the only remaining representative of her family.
-- 'I have not much time for making acquaintances, as a rule,' said the general, 'but as, of course, you have your ob-ject in coming, I ' 'I felt sure you would think I had some object in view when I resolved to pay you this visit,' the prince interrupt-ed; 'but I give you my word, beyond the pleasure of making your acquaintance I had no personal object whatever.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven, 'Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him.'
-- 'Menelaus,' said he, 'has two good friends among the goddesses, Juno of Argos, and Minerva of Alalcomene, but they only sit still and look on, while Ve-nus keeps ever by Alexandrus' side to defend him in any danger; indeed she has just rescued him when he made sure that it was all over with him for the victory really did lie with Menelaus.
-- 'I wish,' he said to him, 'that your limbs were as supple and your strength as sure as your judgment is; but age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.'
-- I have tak-en aim at him already and hit him on the right shoulder; my arrow went through the breastpiece of his cuirass; and I made sure I should send him hurrying to the world be-low, but it seems that I have not killed him.
-- I say further, and lay my saying to your heart if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of killing both, stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim of the chariot; then be sure you spring Ae-neas' horses and drive them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not sure she had heard him, and was about to repeat her question.
-- "Let's be sure we'd be acting perfectly right in bustin' that there door open.
-- I had been tormenting a cat in the night, he was sure the old woman's tongue had been busy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We felt sure of catching you, and bringing you out of danger.
-- 'I'm not so sure of M'ling,' said Montgomery.
-- They are sure to change.'
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