confirmation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 证实， 确定； 确认，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：
-- He thought her beautiful, charming; and he not only said so to himself, but repeated it aloud, and appealed to Lady Helena for confirmation of his opinion, as if to convince himself that he was not blinded by his paternal affection.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't ask either admission or confirmation of this from yourself; I am quite content to leave you to your conscience, and to feel that we understand one another capitally.'
-- But Rogojin added no words of his own in confirmation of this view, and as before, he recounted with marvellous exactness the details of his crime.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That had much to say and little to tell, beyond the confirmation of the evening before, and a very badly written account of another remarkable tale from Port Burdock.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now as she made surmises as to who people were, what were their relations to one another, and what they were like, Kitty endowed them with the most marvelous and noble characters, and found confirmation of her idea in her observations.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch used to say that he knew and liked the peasantry, and he often talked to the peasants, which he knew how to do without affectation or condescension, and from every such conversation he would deduce general conclusions in favor of the peasantry and in confirmation of his knowing them.
-- Levin gave him the bottle, and the same look of passionate hope with which he had taken the sacrament was now fastened on his brother, demanding from him the confirmation of the doctor's words that inhaling iodine worked wonders.
-- And going over the events of the last few days, it seemed to her that she saw in everything a confirmation of this terrible idea.
-- He was amazed at her knowledge, her memory, and at first was disposed to doubt it, to ask for confirmation of her facts; and she would find what he asked for in some book, and show it to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about indignantly to give my assertion the confirmation herequired, when he caught hold of my hand, and gave it a squeeze.
-- My aunt nodded confirmation of this hope, and imparted greatsatisfaction to Mr. Peggotty.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With such an opinion, in confirmation of his own, Mr. Woodhouse hoped to influence every visitor of the new-ly married pair; but still the cake was eaten; and there was no rest for his benevolent nerves till it was all gone.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But sheknew she looked pretty even before she saw confirmation in his eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit recognized the hand, intimated that such confirmation was quite unnecessary, and gave Mr. Bounderby's address, with all needful clues and directions in aid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentleman with the gun-barrel, considering it, on inspection, in a satisfactory state, referred it to the other; receiving confirmation of his views, he fitted it into its place in the case before him, and took out the stock and polished that, softly whistling.
-- So, the talk, lashed louder and higher by confirmation on confirmation, and by edition after edition of the evening papers, swelled into such a roar when night came, as might have brought one to believe that a solitary watcher on the gallery above the Dome of St Paul's would have perceived the night air to be laden with a heavy muttering of the name of Merdle, coupled with every form of execration.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of her brother; and Eliza-beth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr. Wickham, and of seeing a confirmation of everything in Mr. Darcy's look and behavior.
-- But, alas!the story which followed, of his designs on Miss Darcy, received some confirmation from what had passed between Colonel Fitzwilliam and her-self only the morning before; and at last she was referred for the truth of every particular to Colonel Fitzwilliam himself from whom she had previously received the in-formation of his near concern in all his cousin's affairs, and whose character she had no reason to question.
-- In confirmation of this, she related the par-ticulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as such as might be relied on.
-- 'Your coming to Longbourn, to see me and my family,' said Elizabeth coolly, 'will be rather a confirmation of it; if, indeed, such a report is in existence.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought it probable that as they lived in the same county, Mrs. Palmer might be able to give some more particular account of Willoughby's general character, than could be gathered from the Middletons' partial acquaintance with him; and she was eager to gain from any one, such a confirmation of his merits as might remove the possibility of fear from Marianne.
-- The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might NOT hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment. Still farther in confirmation of her hopes, in the interval of Marianne's turning from one lesson to another, some words of the Colonel's inevitably reached her ear, in which he seemed to be apologising for the badness of his house.
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