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：
-- They were obliged to go at a venture, and enter the depths of narrow gorges without any certainty of an outlet.
-- "There is no great certainty about the matter," he replied, in his usual calm voice; "but in my opinion the man's name is really Ayrton.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's the point the certainty of it.
-- But in the case of an execution, that last hope hav-ing which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die, is taken away from the wretch and CERTAINTY substituted in its place!There is his sentence, and with it that terrible certainty that he cannot possibly escape death which, I consider, must be the most dreadful anguish in the world.
-- He turned to the prince, and suddenly the disagreeable thought of the latter's presence struck him, and the certainty that he must have heard every word of the conversation.
-- Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the young soldier regained his recollection, he had the painful certainty before his eyes that a common fate was intended for the whole party.
-- Here the scout seemed to be once more at home, for he held on this way with the certainty and diligence of a man who moved in the security of his own knowledge.
-- Their progress was much facilitated by the certainty that Magua had found it necessary to journey through the valleys; a circumstance which rendered the general direc-tion of the route sure.
-- From such undeniable testimony did the practised woodsman arrive at the truth, with nearly as much certainty and precision as if he had been a witness of all those events which his ingenuity so easily elucidated.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fear of not being able to carry it through effectively has always made me shy of assuming the moral attitude; and in this case the certainty that my sentiments would be lost on Strickland made it peculiarly embarrassing to utter them.
-- "I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had written."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the time, with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread, I knew that such assurance was folly, knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think I was a good, prompt subaltern, and I am very sure that Hands was an excellent pilot, for we went about and about and dodged in, shaving the banks, with a certainty and a neatness that were a pleasure to behold.
-- Nay, and even if things so fell out that he was forced to keep his faith with Dr. Livesey, even then what danger lay before us!What a moment that would be when the suspicions of his followers turned to certainty and he and I should have to fight for dear life he a cripple and I a boy against five strong and active seamen!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And during the last months, under the influence of death, and of Birkin's talk, and of Gudrun's penetrating being, he had lost entirely that mechanical certainty that had been his triumph.
-- Poor Hermione, it was her one possession, this aching certainty of hers, it was her only justification.
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