positive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 确定的, 明确的; (指人) 确信的; 实际的, 有用的; [数，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A positive light appeared to is-sue from Fezziwig's calves.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you're so positive you know all the lore of the forest.
-- I've been promising to go for a century," said Anna, to whom lying, alien as it was to her nature, had become not merely simple and natural in society, but a positive source of satisfaction.
-- Next day Betsy herself came to him in the morning, and announced that she had heard through Oblonsky as a positive fact that Alexey Alexandrovitch had agreed to a divorce, and that therefore Vronsky could see Anna.
-- She thought how Levin, who believed the opposite, was just as positive in his opinions at his own table.
-- "I didn't know you were here," she said, unmistakably feeling no regret, but a positive pleasure, in interrupting this conversation on a topic she had heard so much of that she was by now weary of it.
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：
-- But no one shared his enjoyment: his silent compan-ion looked with positive hostility and mistrust at all these manifestations.
-- You know, for instance, beforehand with positive certainty that this man, this most reputable and exemplary citizen, will on no consideration give you money; and indeed I ask you why should he?
-- 'And this is a consolation to me!This does not hurt me, but is a positive con-so-la-tion, ho-nou-red sir,' he called out, shaken to and fro by his hair and even once striking the ground with his forehead.
-- The beating of his heart was a positive pain.
-- But he soon saw what it meant, and at once began to find positive amusement in the scandal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Miss Murdstone, rising angrily, 'you area positive fool sometimes.'
-- 'A positive fool,' said Miss Murdstone.
-- Forbeing of an inquisitive disposition, and unable to confine herself(as her positive instructions were) to the pantry, she was constantlypeering in at us, and constantly imagining herself detected; inwhich belief, she several times retired upon the plates (with whichshe had carefully paved the floor), and did a great deal ofdestruction.
-- My friend Heep has notfixed the positive remuneration at too high a figure, but he hasmade a great deal, in the way of extrication from the pressure ofpecuniary difficulties, contingent on the value of my services; andon the value of those services, I pin my faith.
-- We must guardourselves from recognising any positive engagement between Mr.Copperfield and our niece, until we have had an opportunity-''Until you have had an opportunity, sister Lavinia,' said MissClarissa.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cot-tage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards High-bury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.
-- Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.'
-- They were the first entitled, after Mrs. Weston and Emma, to be made happy; from them he would have proceeded to Miss Fairfax, but she was so deep in conversation with John Knightley, that it would have been too positive an interruption; and finding himself close to Mrs. Elton, and her attention disengaged, he necessarily began on the subject with her.
-- 'More than an attachment, indeed,' resumed Mrs. Weston; 'an engagement a positive engagement. What will you say, Emma what will any body say, when it is known that Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax are engaged; nay, that they have been long engaged!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This small astronomical calculation was made without any positive effort, and whilst he was stealthily turning to discover, if possible, into whose hands he had fallen.
-- One could almost be positive that there was a malicious leer upon the hideous creature's face, and a mischievous delight in its twitchings.
-- To set against this negative gain there may have been some positive losses from a certain narrowing of the higher tastes and sensations which it entailed.
-- That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less inconsequent than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope; for he had held that these qualities would lead her to adhere to a straight course for consistency's sake, and accept him, though her fancy might not flood him with the iridescent hues of uncritical love.
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