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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About six, being quite positive that her watch had stopped during the night, she could wait no longer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, and had then got upon the roof of the house, and had then let himself down the kitchen chimney by a rope made of his bedding cut into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart--over everybody--it was agreed that it must be so.
-- In my heart I believed her to be right; and yet I took it rather ill, too, that she should be so positive on the point.
-- Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was an honest man, and a good sailor, but a little too positive in his own opinions, which was the cause of his destruction, as it has been with several others; 278 Gulliver's Travelsfor if he had followed my advice, he might have been safe at home with his family at this time, as well as myself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I listened to his positive affirmations, I was stupefied and could say nothing.
-- Still it was a positive fact that someone was speaking.
-- It was a positive fact that I was only separated from her by a distance of forty leagues.
-- The existence of men in the Quaternary period became, therefore, more positive every day.
-- "Good," said my uncle, with a very positive air of conviction, "we are not in Germany."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was the point, when even the smartest aristocrats had really nothing positive of their own to hold, and their rule was really a farce, not rule at all?
-- The women are positive demons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor's friend was in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, red-facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy; the doctor in the comparative hoarser, puffier, more red-faced, more all-fourey, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier.
-- 'Oh I must you know,' said Flora, in a positive tone, 'what nonsense not to, I know I am not what you expected, I know that very well.'
-- His obtuseness on the great Testimonial question was not calculated to awaken admiration in the paternal breast, but had rather a tendency to give offence in that sensitive quarter, and to be regarded as a positive shortcoming in point of gentlemanly feeling.
-- She was so confident in her exposition of the case, and it was so undeniably founded on correct premises in so far as the relative positions of Little Dorrit and her family were concerned, that Clennam could not feel positive on the other side.
-- Not the least of these would have been a contention, always waging within it, between a tendency to dislike Mr Henry Gowan, if not to regard him with positive repugnance, and a whisper that the inclination was unworthy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
-- But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
-- There was some apprehension, but no positive alarm, as yet.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps not the less so from feel-ing a doubt of my positive happiness had my fair cousin honoured me with her hand; for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
-- Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment; but Sir William's good breeding carried him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information, he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbear-ing courtesy.
-- The- fishing scheme had been renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting some of the gentlemen at Pemberley before noon.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to com-fort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
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