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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And would you recommence your search in the Pampas, when you have the certainty that the shipwreck of the BRITANNIA neither occurred on the coasts of the Pacific nor the Atlantic?"
-- Lord Glenarvan had taken care that the ill-success of their expedition should not throw a gloom over the pleasure of meeting, his very first words being:"Cheer up, friends, cheer up!Captain Grant is not with us, but we have a certainty of finding him!"
-- Who knows whether after Australia some other country may not appear with equal certainty to be the place, and we may have to recommence our search?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Keeping Miss Havisham in the background at a great distance, I still hinted at the possibility of my having competed with him in his prospects, and at the certainty of his possessing a generous soul, and being far above any mean distrusts, retaliations, or designs.
-- There's been overmuch coming back of late years, and I should of a certainty be hanged if took."
-- They were strengthened into certainty when I beheld the Aged enter at a side door, escorting a lady.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That would indeed be a curious work, Uncle; but can you make your observations with anything like certainty and precision?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of a certainty they will do it.
-- As often as the little bell rang, he started and peeped out secretly, with the end of the little curtain in his hand and the rest before his face; evidently not at all satisfied but that the man he dreaded had tracked him through all his doublings and turnings, with the certainty of a terrible bloodhound.
-- Of a certainty Mrs Plornish did look at him now, with a sort of quivering defiance in her friendly emotion.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability.
-- But owing to the mystery of the spout whether it be water or whether it be vapor no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at on this head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this parting advice, Mr. Crackit, preferring the chance of being shot by his friend, to the certainty of being taken by his enemies, fairly turned tail, and darted off at full speed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Jane could think with certainty on only one point that Mr. Bingley, if he HAD been imposed on, would have much to suffer when the affair became public.
-- The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her.
-- But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solic-itude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless.
-- Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of see-ing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many inquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.
-- Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months sus-pense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIII - WRECK OF A SPANISH SHIPI WAS now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but have enjoyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me, I could have been content to have capitulated for spending the rest of my time there, even to the last moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the old goat in the cave.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She believed the regard to be mutual; but she required greater certainty of it to make Marianne's conviction of their attachment agreeable to her.
-- My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on either side will be ease to what I now suffer.
-- But a day spent in sitting shivering over the fire with a book in her hand, which she was unable to read, or in lying, weary and languid, on a sofa, did not speak much in favour of her amendment; and when, at last, she went early to bed, more and more indisposed, Colonel Brandon was only astonished at her sister's composure, who, though attending and nursing her the whole day, against Marianne's inclination, and forcing proper medicines on her at night, trusted, like Marianne, to the certainty and efficacy of sleep, and felt no real alarm.
-- CHAPTER 48Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like the certainty of death, he tried to shut the certainty of soon being without a dollar completely out of his mind, and he came very near doing it.
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