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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After mature reflection, Lord Glenarvan and John Mangles came to the determination to sail round the Australian coast, stopping at Cape Bernouilli, and continuing their route south as far as Melbourne, where the DUNCAN could speedily be put right.
-- Lady Helena was informed of the determination to send a message to Melbourne, and that they had drawn lots who should go, and Mulrady had been chosen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was on his way out, with an expression of determination on his face, and of preoccupation and worry also.
-- And for the climax I needed greater determination than I yet possessed.
-- 'However, within three weeks my determination was tak-en, owing to a very strange circumstance.
-- 'I have said above that the determination needed by me for the accomplishment of my final resolve, came to hand not through any sequence of causes, but thanks to a certain strange circumstance which had perhaps no con-nection whatever with the matter at issue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tattycoram, I'll not ask that lady whether she believes what she has said, even in the anger and ill blood in which I and my friend here equally know she has spoken, though she subdues herself, with a determination that any one who has once seen her is not likely to forget.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Like most other young matrons, Meg began her mar-ried life with the determination to be a model housekeeper.
-- Therefore the next time the old gentleman found him getting restless and moody and ordered him off, he went to Vienna, where he had musi-cal friends, and fell to work with the firm determination to distinguish himself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when Steelkilt made known his determination still to lead them to the last, they in some way, by some subtle chemistry of villany, mixed their before secret treacheries together; and when their leader fell into a doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in three sentences; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged him with cords; and shrieked out for the Captain at midnight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been crouching on the step for some time: wondering at the great number of public-houses (every other house in Barnet was a tavern, large or small), gazing listlessly at the coaches as they passed through, and thinking how strange it seemed that they could do, with ease, in a few hours, what it had taken him a whole week of courage and determination beyond his years to accomplish: when he was roused by observing that a boy, who had passed him carelessly some minutes before, had returned, and was now surveying him most earnestly from the opposite side of the way.
-- There was so much determination and depth of purpose about the menacing manner in which Mr. Bumble delivered himself of these words, that Mrs. Mann appeared quite awed by them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though her man-ner varied, however, her determination never did.
-- He was resolutely silent, however, and, from a determination of making him speak, she continued: 'I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty! I should as soon call her mother a wit.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- some hundreds of leagues, out of the ordinary course of the trade of mankind, I had great reason to consider it as a determination of Heaven, that in this desolate place, and in this desolate manner, I should end my life.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wondered, with little intermission what could be the reason of it; was sure there must be some bad news, and thought over every kind of distress that could have befallen him, with a fixed determination that he should not escape them all.
-- But as it was her determination to subdue it, and to prevent herself from appearing to suffer more than what all her family suffered on his going away, she did not adopt the method so judiciously employed by Marianne, on a similar occasion, to augment and fix her sorrow, by seeking silence, solitude and idleness.
-- To this determination she was the more easily reconciled, by recollecting that Edward Ferrars, by Lucy's account, was not to be in town before February; and that their visit, without any unreasonable abridgement, might be previously finished.
-- She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed with the spirited determination of disliking her at all events.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At half-past five she reached home, and at six her determination was hardened.
-- She built up feelings and a determination which the occasion did not warrant.
-- He was pouring determination of his own in her direction.
-- "Say," he said, rising, putting a note of determination in his voice which caused her to delay her departure, "what's the matter with you of late?
-- Never before had he seen such a cold, steely determination in her eye--such a cruel look of indifference.
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