affirm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 断定, 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：
-- "We shall know that, too, presently, and we may affirm this much already—it comes from a long way off.
-- "No one can affirm that they are."
-- I can affirm the fact by the mere taste, that this animal has come a great distance, and consequently the whole herd has."
-- All that I affirm is, that Captain Grant is in the hands of the natives."
-- McNabbs ventured to affirm that no vital part was injured.
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 wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- Well, I affirm that my reader is wrong again, for my convictions have nothing to do with my sentence of death.
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：
-- When a friendship is formed between men, they generally affirm it, when occasion offers, either in public or private, by drinking to each other and exclaiming, 'thy health,' at the same time striking their glasses together.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- Herbert did not hesitate to affirm that some animal of the feline species had passed there, which justified the engineer's opinion that dangerous beasts existed in Lincoln Island.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where Miss Taylor failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing. You never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished. You know you could not.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He also intended to explain to them that if they gave an affirmative answer to a question, they would thereby affirm everything involved in the question, and that if they did not desire to affirm everything involved in the question, they must distinguish the part they affirmed from the part they disaffirmed.
-- And, stuffing his mouth with his beard, and making grimaces, he in a very natural manner pretended to know nothing of the entire affair, except that the grounds of appeal were insufficient, and therefore agreed with the President to affirm the judgment.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A half-smile curled the lips of the commander: then, in a calmer tone:"M. Aronnax," he replied, "dare you affirm that your frigate would not as soon have pursued and cannonaded a submarine boat as a monster?"
-- I affirm that not only can the Nautilus disengage itself, but also that it can go further still."
-- What I now affirm is, that I have a right to speak of these seas, under which, in less than ten months, I have crossed 20,000 leagues in that submarine tour of the world, which has revealed so many wonders.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If this be true (and they affirm it with great confidence) it is much to be wished, that their observations were made public, whereby the theory of comets, which at present is very lame and de-fective, might be brought to the same perfection with other arts of astronomy.
-- I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That Oliver Twist was moved to resignation by the example of these good people, I cannot, although I am his biographer, undertake to affirm with any degree of confidence; but I can most distinctly say, that for many months he continued meekly to submit to the domination and ill-treatment of Noah Claypole: who used him far worse than before, now that his jealousy was roused by seeing the new boy promoted to the black stick and hatband, while he, the old one, remained stationary in the muffin-cap and leathers.
-- 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.
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