determination是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 决定, 确定, 决心，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：
-- Miss, if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the be-lief that her father was dead No, don't kneel!In Heaven's name why should you kneel to me!'
-- That, the lofty example of this immacu-late and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an honour, had communi-cated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers.
-- Into his handsome face, the bitter waters of captivity had worn; but, he covered up their tracks with a determination so strong, that he held the mastery of them even in his sleep.
-- 'Nothing human could have held life in the boy but his determination to tell all his wrong.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he had now come to Moscow with a firm determination to make an offer, and get married if he were accepted.
-- Levin had meant to tell his brother of his determination to get married, and to ask his advice; he had indeed firmly resolved to do so.
-- Having read the letter, he raised his eyes to her, and there was no determination in them.
-- In his walk, in his gestures, in the sound of his voice there was a determination and firmness such as his wife had never seen in him.
-- and with desperate determination she pressed his hand with her cold hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pilot, at first, did not seem to comprehend; he could scarcely realise so much determination and tenacity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went through a change as definite as religious conversion or the coming of insane frenzy in war; the change from shamed reluctance to be unfaithful to his wife, to a determination to take what he could get.
-- If I could trust you, Martin, to use the phage with only half your patients and keep the others as controls, under normal hygienic conditions but without the phage, then you could make an absolute determination of its value as complete as what we have of mosquito transmission of yellow fever, and then I would send you down to St. Hubert.
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：
-- The light soon died away, but the look of suffering remained, and Zossimov, watching and studying his patient with all the zest of a young doctor beginning to practise, noticed in him no joy at the arrival of his mother 316 Crime and Punishmentand sister, but a sort of bitter, hidden determination to bear another hour or two of inevitable torture.
-- But there was a look of sharp determination in his white face.
-- His face was particularly stern and there was a sort of savage determination in it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the interruption, and the disordershe was thrown into by the struggle outside, put an end to allsofter ideas for the present, and kept my aunt indignantlydeclaiming to Mr. Dick about her determination to appeal forredress to the laws of her country, and to bring actions for trespassagainst the whole donkey proprietorship of Dover, until tea-time.
-- Indeed, theywere more and more brightly exhibited as the hours went on; for Ithought even then, as I have no doubt now, that the consciousnessof success in his determination to please, inspired him with a newdelicacy of perception, and made it, subtle as it was, more easy to 292him.
-- I happened to glance at Ham, thenlooking out to sea upon the distant light, and a frightful thoughtcame into my mind- not that his face was angry, for it was not; Irecall nothing but an expression of stern determination in it- that ifever he encountered Steerforth, he would kill him.
-- I have been veryfortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked muchharder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could havedone what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order,and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself onone object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor shouldcome upon its heels, which I then formed.
-- 732Against such a sight, and against such determination as that of thecalmly desperate man who was already accustomed to lead halfthe people present, I might as hopefully have entreated the wind.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
-- What strength, or what constancy of affection he might be subject to, was another point; but at present she could not doubt his having a decidedly warm admiration, a conscious prefer-ence of herself; and this persuasion, joined to all the rest, made her think that she must be a little in love with him, in spite of every previous determination against it.
-- When she became sensible of this, it struck her that she could not be very much in love; for in spite of her previous and fixed determination never to quit her father, never to marry, a strong attachment certainly must produce more of a strug-gle than she could foresee in her own feelings.
-- Mr. Knightley suspect-ed in Frank Churchill the determination of catching her eye he seemed watching her intently in vain, however, if it were so Jane passed between them into the hall, and 422 Emmalooked at neither.
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