affirmative是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 肯定的，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：
-- The Patagonian nodded in reply, a movement of the head which has an affirmative significance among all nations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Short replied in the affirmative with a nod and a smile.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The assistant inquired in German whether he should give it, and receiving an affirmative reply from behind the partition, he took out a bottle and a funnel, deliberately poured the opium from a bigger bottle into a little one, stuck on a label, sealed it up, in spite of Levin's request that he would not do so, and was about to wrap it up too.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Third affirmative grunt.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was almost too much astonished to answer; but Mrs. Elton hardly waited for the affirmative before she went on.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, we will drudge together, I suppose," he continued in response to Nekhludoff's affirmative answer.
-- The presiding justice looked over the papers, asked some questions of the usher, and receiving affirmative answers, ordered that the prisoners be brought into court.
-- asked the justiciary, and receiving an affirmative answer, motioned his assent.
-- As the reading of this report began the justiciary leaned over to one of his associates and whispered something, then to the other, and, receiving affirmative answers, interrupted the reading at this point.
-- He also intended to explain to them that if they gave an affirmative answer to a question, they would thereby affirm everything involved in the question, and that if they did not desire to affirm everything involved in the question, they must distinguish the part they affirmed from the part they disaffirmed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight, alleging, 'that as the Yahoos were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and in-docible, mischievous and malicious; they would privately suck the teats of the Houyhnhnms' cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down their oats and grass, if they were not continually watched, and commit a thousand other ex-travagancies.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- into an affirmative answer, But Ferdinand Barnacle looked knowingly at Bar as he strolled up-stairs, and gave him no answer at all.
-- For upwards of three years she reclined in a wheeled chair, looking attentively at those about her and appearing to understand what they said; but the rigid silence she had so long held was evermore enforced upon her, and except that she could move her eyes and faintly express a negative and affirmative with her head, she lived and died a statue.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And by those negations, considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.
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