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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thalcave positively talked to the beast, and Thaouka understood perfectly, though unable to reply, for, after a great deal of arguing, the noble creature yielded, though he still champed the bit.
-- He could, therefore, declare positively that the survivors of the wreck had not been thrown on that part of the western shore.
-- It said positively that a "continent" had served as a refuge for Captain Grant, not an island.
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：
-- 'I did not positively say so.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first time I met an example of this handwriting, I was positively astonished, and where do you think I chanced to find it?
-- 'Thank you,' began the prince; 'and since you are so very kind there is just one matter which I ' 'You must really excuse me,' interrupted the general, 'but I positively haven't another moment now.
-- At the foot of the ladder he had been pale enough; but when he set foot on the scaffold at the top, his face suddenly became the colour of paper, positively like white notepaper.
-- The girls stood apart, almost frightened; their father was positively horrified.
-- By Jove!it was positively a mercy that he died when he did it was indeed everyone said so at the time.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before returning to the cave, the sailor and Herbert, in the event of fire being positively unattainable, collected some more shell-fish, and then silently retraced their steps to their dwelling.
-- Cyrus Harding announced this result to his companions, and taking into consideration errors o f observation, as he had done for the latitude, he believed he could positively affirm that the position of Lincoln Island was between the thirty-fifth and the thirty-seventh parallel, and between the hundred and fiftieth and the hundred and fifty-fifth meridian to the west of the meridian of Greenwich.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Jarley sat in the pay-place, chinking silver moneys from noon till night, and solemnly calling upon the crowd to take notice that the price of admission was only sixpence, and that the departure of the whole collection, on a short tour among the Crowned Heads of Europe, was positively fixed for that day week.
-- As he said nothing further, and declined taking the hint, Mr Brass was fain to propose that they should go up stairs together, and make a last effort to awaken the sleeper by some less violent means, which, if they failed on this last trial, must positively be succeeded by stronger measures.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, they will not, Agrippina Petrovna--they will positively not be needed," said Nekhludoff, answering what she meant by shaking his head.
-- No, mon cher, you must positively not be admitted there-- you want to know everything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That same evening, the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.
-- Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well -disposed or harmless errands.
-- It is due to the young lady to say that she did not positively affirm that she would not, but that she merely expressed an emphatic and earnest desire to be 'blessed' if she would; a polite and delicate evasion of the request, which shows the young lady to have been possessed of that natural good breeding which cannot bear to inflict upon a fellow-creature, the pain of a direct and pointed refusal.
-- 'You ought to be dead; positively dead with the fright,' said the fat gentleman.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose, though, in the meantime, I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to business, and frequently expos-tulated with my father and mother about their being so positively determined against what they knew my incli-nations prompted me to.
-- I was positively against that; and looking over the charts of the sea-coast of America with him, we concluded there was no inhabited country for us to have recourse to till we came within the circle of the Caribbee Islands, and there-fore resolved to stand away for Barbadoes; which, by keeping off at sea, to avoid the indraft of the Bay or Gulf of Mexico, we might easily perform, as we hoped, in about fifteen days' sail; whereas we could not possibly make our voyage to the coast of Africa without some assistance both to our ship and to ourselves.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Jennings left them earlier than usual; for she could not be easy till the Middletons and Palmers were able to grieve as much as herself; and positively refusing Elinor's offered attendance, went out alone for the rest of the morning.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She came faintly across the stage, saying: "And you, sir; we have been looking for you since eight o'clock," but with so little colour and in such a feeble voice that it was positively painful.
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