precisely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 精确地, 恰好, 正是, 确实，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Precisely so,' assented Mrs. Micawber.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.
-- He is the very best young man But, my dear Jane, if you remember, I told you yesterday he was precisely the height of Mr. Per-ry.
-- She felt that she should like to have had the power of refus-al; and afterwards, as the idea of the party to be assembled there, consisting precisely of those whose society was dear-est to her, occurred again and again, she did not know that she might not have been tempted to accept.
-- This is precisely what I wanted.
-- May is the very month which Mrs. Churchill is ordered, or has ordered herself, to spend in some warmer place than Enscombe in short, to spend in London; so that we have the agreeable prospect of frequent visits from Frank the whole spring precisely the season of the year which one should have chosen for it: days almost at the longest; weather genial and pleasant, always inviting one out, and never too hot for exercise.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long experience had so precisely taught the animal the difference between such exclamations as "Come in!"
-- That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of inanition, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces positives and negatives in fine adjustment.
-- "More precisely speaking, you have been within half an inch of being pared alive two hundred and ninety-five times."
-- Bathsheba, having previously been living in a state of suspended feeling which was not suspense, now lived in a mood of quietude which was not precisely peacefulness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opin-ions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our breakfast was as good as the supper, and at half-past eight precisely we started for Little Britain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, 'I cannot say that I have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite true that the mercury, after rising gradually in the instrument, as long as our descent was taking place, had stopped precisely at twenty-nine degrees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Precisely as a beast might approach the opened gate of his den and eye the freedom beyond, he passed those few moments in watching and peering, until the door was closed upon him.
-- 'But if we talk of not having changed,' said Flora, who, whatever she said, never once came to a full stop, 'look at Papa, is not Papa precisely what he was when you went away, isn't it cruel and unnatural of Papa to be such a reproach to his own child, if we go on in this way much longer people who don't know us will begin to suppose that I am Papa's Mama!'
-- When this spirited young man and his sister had begun systematically to produce the family skeleton for the overawing of the College, this narrative cannot precisely state.
-- They had precisely the same incapacity for settling down to anything, as the prisoners used to have; they rather deteriorated one another, as the prisoners used to do; and they wore untidy dresses, and fell into a slouching way of life: still, always like the people in the Marshalsea.
-- 'Precisely so,' said Clennam.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's precisely it," said the landlord, "and I told him he couldn't sell it here, the market's overstocked."
-- But we shall ere long see what that word "careful" precisely means when used by a man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
-- But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction.
-- (Killer). Of this whale little is precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed naturalist.
-- First: The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again.
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