assure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 断言; 使确信; 保(人寿) 险，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having written to Joe, to offer him consolation, and to assure him that I would come to the funeral, I passed the intermediate days in the curious state of mind I have glanced at.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's what our people aways use, sir, when they get any hurts in the ring,' replied the girl, looking over her shoulder, to assure herself that her pursuer was gone.
-- A hard bed the pavement of its Arcade used to make, I assure you.
-- I am attending, I assure you.'
-- Detaining her in his embrace, he said, 'I may assure you now, my favourite child, that I am made happy by the sound decision at which you have arrived.
-- 'I assure you, Mrs. Powler,' he then said, much exhausted, 'that the father's manner prepared me for a grim and stony maturity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I assure you, that I begin to think no animal is more intelligent than an Icelandic horse.
-- "Well, said the Professor, with the most imperturbable tranquillity, "it is the shell of a crustaceous animal of the extinct order of the trilobites; nothing more, I assure you."
-- "But I beg to assure you that I am perfectly recovered from my illness."
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：
-- He needed Connie to be there, to assure him he existed at all.
-- 'I assure you, you were very elegant altogether out there in the wood.
-- 'Still far from it, I assure you.
-- 'Not a' that far, I assure YOU.
-- 'But it was different, I assure you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, as I have no need to stick at a bank-desk now (though I have been poor enough in my time I assure you, or I should have married Mrs Meagles long before), we go trotting about the world.
-- 'I do assure you that I am, and do entreat you to believe that I am, in plain earnest.'
-- I assure you, Mr Clennam, I have received hem Testimonials in many ways, and of many degrees of value, and they have always been ha unfortunately acceptable; but I never was more pleased than with this ahem this particular Testimonial.'
-- With that he put up his spectacle-case, and said to Arthur, 'If I don't complain, Mr Clennam, I can feel gratitude; and I assure you that I feel it towards our mutual friend.
-- I assure you, Flora, I am happy in seeing you once more, and in finding that, like me, you have not forgotten the old foolish dreams, when we saw all before us in the light of our youth and hope.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm nowhere beside you, for Belle has heaps of taste, and you're quite French, I assure you.
-- She heard Mrs. Moffat reply to one of them... 'Daisy March father a colonel in the army one of our first families, but reverses of fortune, you know; intimate friends of the Laurences; sweet creature, I assure you; my Ned is quite wild about her.'
-- As the President finished reading the paper (which I beg leave to assure my readers is a bona fide copy of one written by bona fide girls once upon a time), a round of applause fol-lowed, and then Mr. Snodgrass rose to make a proposition.
-- He drew a little nearer, and looked more like his old self as he said that, and the fear that sometimes weighed on Amy's heart was lightened, for the look, the act, the broth-erly 'my dear', seemed to assure her that if any trouble did come, she would not be alone in a strange land.
-- Blurred and blotted, faulty and feeble as the lines were, they brought a look of inexpressible comfort to Beth's face, for her one regret had been that she had done so little, and this seemed to assure her that her life had not been useless, that her death would not bring the despair she feared.
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