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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
-- Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent.
-- There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
-- And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
-- And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew, perceiving that Mr. Chitling was considerably roused, hastened to assure him that nobody was laughing; and to prove the gravity of the company, appealed to Master Bates, the principal offender.
-- During the silence, the Jew looked restlessly about the room, as if to assure himself that there were no appearances of Sikes having covertly returned.
-- Having listened at the keyhole, to assure himself that nobody was approaching the chamber, Mr. Bumble, beginning at the bottom, proceeded to make himself acquainted with the contents of the three long drawers: which, being filled with various garments of good fashion and texture, carefully preserved between two layers of old newspapers, speckled with dried lavender: seemed to yield him exceeding satisfaction.
-- 'I have heard enough, already, to assure me that you are the man I ought to talk to.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is more than I engage for, I assure you.'
-- I dare say Mr. Bing-ley will be very glad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls; though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.'
-- 'But I can assure you,' she added, 'that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting HIS fancy; for he is a most disagree-able, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.
-- 'You conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you.
-- 'I assure you there is quite as much of THAT going on in the country as in town.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as I had secured my two weak, rescued prison-ers, and given them shelter, and a place to rest them upon, I began to think of making some provision for them; and the first thing I did, I ordered Friday to take a yearling goat, betwixt a kid and a goat, out of my particular flock, to be killed; when I cut off the hinder-quarter, and chopping it into small pieces, I set Friday to work to boiling and stew-ing, and made them a very good dish, I assure you, of flesh and broth; and as I cooked it without doors, for I made no fire within my inner wall, so I carried it all into the new tent, and having set a table there for them, I sat down, and ate my own dinner also with them, and, as well as I could, cheered them and encouraged them.
-- But above all, the season for curing the grapes coming on, I caused such a prodigious quantity to be hung up in the sun, that, I believe, had we been at Alicant, where the raisins of the sun are cured, we could have filled sixty or eighty barrels; and these, with our bread, formed a great part of our food - very good living too, I assure you, for they are exceedingly nourishing.
-- The old man told me he had not been in the Brazils for about nine years; but that he could assure me that when he came away my partner was living, but the trustees whom I had joined with him to take cogni-sance of my part were both dead: that, however, he believed I would have a very good account of the improvement of the plantation; for that, upon the general belief of my be-ing cast away and drowned, my trustees had given in the account of the produce of my part of the plantation to the procurator-fiscal, who had appropriated it, in case I never came to claim it, one-third to the king, and two-thirds to the monastery of St. Augustine, to be expended for the ben-efit of the poor, and for the conversion of the Indians to the Catholic faith: but that, if I appeared, or any one for me, to claim the inheritance, it would be restored; only that the improvement, or annual production, being distributed to charitable uses, could not be restored: but he assured me that the steward of the king's revenue from lands, and the providore, or steward of the monastery, had taken great care all along that the incumbent, that is to say my partner, gave every year a faithful account of the produce, of which they had duly received my moiety.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it.
-- He hoped they would all excuse the smallness of the party, and could assure them it should never happen so again.
-- "As good a kind of fellow as ever lived, I assure you.
-- He was received by Mrs. Dashwood with more than politeness; with a kindness which Sir John's account of him and her own gratitude prompted; and every thing that passed during the visit tended to assure him of the sense, elegance, mutual affection, and domestic comfort of the family to whom accident had now introduced him.
-- "I assure you it is not in my power."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked about and tried to assure herself with the sight of a dozen such details, but, alas, the secondary thought arrived.
-- At other times she would look about her and assure herself that things were not so bad--that certainly she would come out safe and sound.
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