confirm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 证实; 确认; 批准，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Citizen Gabelle was called to confirm it, and did so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And your salary will be, I should think, if Mr. McGurk and the other Trustees confirm me, ten thousand a year instead of five.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You yourself, mademoiselle, probably will not refuse to confirm my state-ment that I invited you through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, solely in order to discuss with you the hopeless and destitute po-sition of your relative, Katerina Ivanovna (whose dinner I was unable to attend), and the advisability of getting up something of the nature of a subscription, lottery or the like, for her benefit.
-- Incidentally the murder of Lizaveta served indeed to confirm the last hypothesis: a man commits two murders and forgets that the door is open!Fi-nally, the confession, at the very moment when the case was hopelessly muddled by the false evidence given by Nikolay through melancholy and fanaticism, and when, moreover, there were no proofs against the real criminal, no suspi-cions even (Porfiry Petrovitch fully kept his word) all this did much to soften the sentence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It can hardly be necessaryfor me to confirm anything stated by my brother,' said MissMurdstone; 'but I beg to observe, that, of all the boys in the world,I believe this is the worst boy.'
-- 'Annie, my dear,' returned her mother, 'once for all, I must reallybeg that you will not interfere with me, unless it is to confirm whatI say.
-- 'You may be able to confirm what I have said, Mr.Traddles,' observed Miss Lavinia, evidently taking a new interestin him, of the affection that is modest and retiring; that waits andwaits?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will give you every thing that you want consideration, independence, a proper home it will fix you in the centre of all your real friends, close to Hartfield and to me, and confirm our inti-macy for ever.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.
-- Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a determina-tion of not creating you a companion in vice.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
-- To confirm what I have now said, and further to show the miserable effects of a confined education, I shall here insert a passage, which will hardly obtain belief.
-- But further to confirm all I had said, I entreated him to give order that my cabinet should be brought, of which I had the key in my pocket; for he had already informed me how the seamen disposed of my closet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A serious study of the soil was necessary to negative or confirm my hypothesis.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One more remark,' proceeded Flora with unslackened volubility, 'I wish to make, one more explanation I wish to offer, for five days I had a cold in the head from crying which I passed entirely in the back drawing-room there is the back drawing-room still on the first floor and still at the back of the house to confirm my words when that dreary period had passed a lull succeeded years rolled on and Mr F. became acquainted with us at a mutual friend's, he was all attention he called next day he soon began to call three evenings a week and to send in little things for supper it was not love on Mr F.'s part it was adoration, Mr F. proposed with the full approval of Papa and what could I do?'
-- Everything about him tended to confirm him in the custom of looking on himself as an elderly man, from whom such aspirations as he had combated in the case of Minnie Gowan (though that was not so long ago either, reckoning by months and seasons), were finally departed.
-- There was yet another circumstance which went a long way to confirm Little Dorrit in her fears, though it was not a great circumstance in itself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the girls could believe the happy truth, the doctor came to confirm it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- You say you are an orphan, without a friend in the world; all the inquiries I have been able to make, confirm the statement.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters by the earnest-ness of her congratulations to Sir William, in which she was readily joined by Jane, and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match, the excellent character of Mr. Collins, and the convenient distance of Hunsford from London.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor derived no comfortable feelings from this conversation, to lessen the uneasiness of her mind on other points; she was left, on the contrary, with a melancholy impression of Colonel Brandon's unhappiness, and was prevented even from wishing it removed, by her anxiety for the very event that must confirm it.
-- Though aware, before she began it, that it must bring a confession of his inconstancy, and confirm their separation for ever, she was not aware that such language could be suffered to announce it; nor could she have supposed Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.
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