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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was obliged, in spite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the justice that Mrs. Weston foretold.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A young cavalry soldier in a red uniform, with the three chevrons of a sergeant upon his sleeve, strode up the aisle, with an embarrassment which was only the more marked by the intense vigour of his step, and by the determination upon his face to show none.
-- Troy heard the dull determination in Boldwood's voice, looked at his stalwart frame, then at the thick cudgel he carried in his hand.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After having formed this determination and having spent some months in success-fully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.
-- The fresh air revived me, and with renewed determination I ap-proached the door of their cottage.
-- The monster saw my determination in my face and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The things about him which she could notunderstand only made her love him more, and his odd, restrained courtship only served to increase her determination tohave him for her own.
-- True, grim determination had taken the place of high-hearted hopes, butpeople could still find a silver lining in the cloud.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll show you a wrist," repeated Mr. Jaggers, with an immovable determination to show it.
-- His blue bag was slung over his shoulder, honest industry beamed in his eyes, a determination to proceed to Trabb's with cheerful briskness was indicated in his gait.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturae; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristo-tle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have 125invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
-- He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
-- The young couple meet, and are joined, merely because it is the determination of their parents and friends; it is what they see done every day, and they look upon it as one of the necessary actions of a reasonable be- 343ing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bank had foreclosed a mortgage effected on the property thus pleasantly situated, by one of the Coketown magnates, who, in his determination to make a shorter cut than usual to an enormous fortune, overspeculated himself by about two hundred thousand pounds.
-- But Mrs. Sparsit's greatest point, first and last, was her determination to pity Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hitherto our courage and determination had overcome all difficulties.
-- Hans was not a bit more proud after hearing our determination than he was before.
-- Having come to this determination I ascended the tunnel for at least half an hour, unable to decide if I had ever seen certain landmarks before.
-- I now by the exercise of great determination dragged myself along the sides of the cavern, until I reached a point where I could hear more distinctly.
-- I felt myself precipitated violently into the boiling waves, and if I escaped from a certain and cruel death, it was wholly owing to the determination of the faithful Hans, who, clutching me by the arm, saved me from the yawning abyss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The special feature in Dr Haggage's treatment of the case, was his determination to keep Mrs Bangham up to the mark.
-- 'But we all three have known, I expect,' said the inventor, 'a pretty many cases of its fixed determination to be miles upon miles, and years upon years, behind the rest of us; and of its being found out persisting in the use of things long superseded, even after the better things were well known and generally taken up?'
-- Weakened in mind by his frequent losses of this instrument, and its determination not to stick in his eye, and more and more enfeebled in intellect every time he looked at the mysterious Clennam, he applied spoons to his eyes, forks, and other foreign matters connected with the furniture of the dinner-table.
-- Not that he ever wavered either in his desire or his determination to repair a wrong that had been done in his father's time, should a wrong come to light, and be reparable.
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