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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throwing his leg over the saddle, he dismounted, with a determination to advance and seize his treacherous companion, trusting the result to his own manhood.
-- Notwithstanding this appar-ent adherence in Magua to the original determination of his conquerors, Heyward could not believe his tempting bait was so soon forgotten; and he knew the windings of an Indian's path too well to suppose that its apparent course led directly to its object, when artifice was at all necessary.
-- Then Hawk-eye announced his determination to proceed.
-- I go now to your gallant father, to hear his determination in matters of the last moment to the defense.
-- Duncan bowed low, pleased with the compliment, in spite of a most heroic determination to suffer no artifice to allure him into forgetfulness of the interest of his prince; and Montcalm, after a pause of a moment, as if to collect his thoughts, proceeded: 'Your commandant is a brave man, and well qualified to repel my assault.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strangest, Strickland's determination to become a painter, seems to be arbitrary; and though it must have had causes in the circumstances of his life, I am ignorant of them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this error would not influence the determination which it was necessary to take.
-- "Oh, captain," replied the sailor, "with a little determination " Pencroft had erased the word "impossible" from the dictionary of Lincoln Island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Jiniwin made a faint demonstration of rebellion by sitting down in a chair near the door and folding her arms as if in a resolute determination to do nothing.
-- As the pony, with a presentiment that he was going home, or a determination that he would not go anywhere else (which was the same thing) trotted away pretty nimbly, Kit had no time to justify himself, and went his way also.
-- Of this determination Mr Quilp expressed his high approval, and setting himself in the same breath to goad Mr Swiveller on to further hints, soon made out that the single gentleman had been seen in communication with Kit, and that this was the secret which was never to be disclosed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his determination of the day before to tell everything to her husband, to confess his sin before him, and to hold himself ready for any satisfaction he might demand, came to his mind.
-- When Agrippina Petrovna entered his room he declared to her with a determination which he himself did not expect, that he had no further need of the house, and that he would dispense with her services.
-- The arguments of the clerk that not one-fourth of the value of the stock could be realized on a sale, that the peasants would permit the land to run to waste, only strengthened his determination and confirmed him in his belief that he was doing a good deed by giving the land to the peasants, and depriving himself of the greater part of his income.
-- And his vote was thrown against a reversal, principally for the reason that Nekhludoff's determination to marry the girl on moral grounds was extremely repugnant to him.
-- When he recalled Maslova, the decision of the Senate, and his determination to follow her; when he recalled his relinquishment of his right to the land, there suddenly appeared before him, as if in answer to these questions, the face of Mariette; her sigh and glance when she said, "When will I see you again?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reaction mounted from the crew to the captain himself, and certainly, had it not been for the resolute determination on the part of Captain Farragut, the frigate would have headed due southward.
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