positively是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 确定的， 断然，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was all that was positively discoverable, though it seemed human.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son confirmed his father's account, but when Daniel Nugent was called he swore positively that just before the fall of his companion, he saw a boat, with a single man in it, at a short distance from the shore; and as far as he could judge by the light of a few stars, it was the same boat in which I had just landed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chancellorsville might be a more important victory but the capture ofStreight's raiders made the Yankees positively ridiculous.
-- It made a girl feel positively undressed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Positively laughing!
-- When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it.
-- Now, you are distinctly to understand that you are most positively prohibited from making any inquiry on this head, or any allusion or reference, however distant, to any individual whomsoever as the individual, in all the communications you may have with me.
-- Sarah Pocket came to the gate, and positively reeled back when she saw me so changed; her walnut-shell countenance likewise turned from brown to green and yellow.
-- When he felt his case unusually serious, and that he positively must find an opening, he would go on 'Change at a busy time, and walk in and out, in a kind of gloomy country dance figure, among the assembled magnates.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the looking-glass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee.
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
-- She had positively refused to take to her bed; on the ground that if she did, she would never hear the last of it.
-- 'I think there's a pain somewhere in the room,' said Mrs. Gradgrind, 'but I couldn't positively say that I have got it.'
-- He was positively agitated.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said I, not positively but interrogatively.
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：
-- It was as if she never positively wanted him.
-- I held forth with rapture to her, positively with rapture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't pretend to know positively how a prisoner might feel.
-- 'But, my dear fellow,' returned William, 'for that very reason, if for no other, you must positively try to rouse yourself.
-- I am hurt that she should ha systematically reproduce what the rest of us blot out; and seem hum I had almost said positively anxious to announce to wealthy and distinguished society that she was born and bred in ha hum a place that I myself decline to name.
-- 'Upon my word, my dear,' rejoined that young lady with exceeding indifference, 'I wouldn't positively answer even for that.
-- It would have been all one to him, in reality, if there had not been a pippin on the surface of the earth, but his show of interest in this apple question was positively painful.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact."
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