certainty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 必然的事, 必然, 确实, 肯定，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly at home, but of a certainty impossible for hand-maid to anticipate intentions of Miss Pross, as to admission or denial of the fact.
-- Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will not say for a certainty that he can,' said the shadow, 'but I think so; he has now followed me for so many years, and listened to my conversation-I should think it possible.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The proof that they knew for a certainty the nature of death lay in the fact that they knew without a second of hesitation how to deal with the dying, and were not frightened of them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It sounded bellicose, and all the while Martin was blissful with the certainty that he had come home.
-- As he bustled to the Institute he swelled with the certainty that after years of stumbling he had arrived.
-- When the train stopped between stations and from the engine came a questioning, fretful whistle, he was aghast with certainty that something had gone wrong--a bridge was out, a train was ahead of them; perhaps another was coming just behind them, about to smash into them at sixty miles an hour-- He imagined being wrecked, and he suffered more than from the actual occurrence, for he pictured not one wreck but half a dozen, with assorted miseries.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know, for instance, beforehand with positive certainty that this man, this most reputable and exemplary citizen, will on no consideration give you money; and indeed I ask you why should he?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The patienceand hope with which he bore these perpetual disappointments, themild perception he had that there was something wrong aboutKing Charles the First, the feeble efforts he made to keep him out,and the certainty with which he came in, and tumbled theMemorial out of all shape, made a deep impression on me.
-- They did just what they liked withme; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, witha certainty I blush to think of, the more especially as, in myjuvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being soconfidential, and felt that I was quite the patron of my tworespectful entertainers.
-- Mr. Dick professedan absolute certainty of having seen him before, and we both said,'Very likely.'
-- So far as I know- and Ibelieve his honest heart was transparent to me- he never waveredagain, in his solemn certainty of finding her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
-- replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, 'what is the certainty of caprice?'
-- A word was put in for a second young Cox; and at last, Mr. Weston naming one family of cousins 300 Emmawho must be included, and another of very old acquaintance who could not be left out, it became a certainty that the five couple would be at least ten, and a very interesting specula-tion in what possible manner they could be disposed of.
-- One good thing was immediately brought to a certainty by this removal, the ball at the Crown.
-- All that remained to be wished was, that the nephew should form the attachment, as, with all her good-will in the cause, Emma could feel no certainty of its being already formed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak may have had the best of intentions in withholding for as many days as possible the details of what had happened to Fanny; but had he known that Bathsheba's perceptions had already been exercised in the matter, he would have done nothing to lengthen the minutes of suspense she was now undergoing, when the certainty which must terminate it would be the worst fact suspected after all.
-- "But there's no telling to a certainty from a body's outside.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 100 FrankensteinChapter 9 othing is more painful to the human mind than, after Nthe feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
-- Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful sus-pense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes.
-- Indeed, as the period ap-proached, the threat appeared more as a delusion, not to be regarded as worthy to disturb my peace, while the happiness I hoped for in my marriage wore a greater appearance of certainty as the day fixed for its solemnization drew nearer and I heard it continually spoken of as an occurrence which no accident could possibly prevent.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This certainty of the morrow gave zest and enthusiasm to life, and the County people enjoyed life with aheartiness that Ellen could never understand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.
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