definite是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明确的； 一定的； 意志坚强的， 立场坚定的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then on the top of these more or less vague im-pressions there had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, delivered with such intense earnestness that I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason lay behind it.
-- I fear that unless you can give me some more definite information than this it would be impossible to get him to move.'
-- As we ran towards it the vague outline hardened into a definite shape.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At all events, she had been unable to obtain any definite news from the Ep- anchin girls the most she could get out of them being hints and surmises, and so on.
-- Something strange seemed to have happened, without any- thing definite having actually happened.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.
-- That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque trav-esties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.
-- For them and for me it came without any definite shock.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the most popular superstitions consists in the belief that every man is endowed with definite qualities--that some men are kind, some wicked; some wise, some foolish; some energetic, some apathetic, etc.
-- I will then give you a definite answer."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was thus that, either by overloading her reservoirs or by descending obliquely by means of her inclined planes, the Nautilus successively attained the depth of three, four, five, seven, nine, and ten thousand yards, and the definite result of this experience was that the sea preserved an average temperature of four degrees and a half at a depth of five thousand fathoms under all latitudes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He moved about a great deal, his life seemed uncertain, without any definite rhythm, any organic meaning.
-- "High!There are centuries and hundreds of centuries of development in a straight line, behind that carving; it is an awful pitch of culture, of a definite sort."
-- They must marry at once, and so make a definite pledge, enter into a definite communion.
-- But when they are hot and roused, there is a definite attraction a curious kind of full electric fluid like eels."
-- "Yes," Gerald looked at Gudrun, who sat by his side, and he said, his eyes narrowly laughing, "I want to know whether I ought to congratulate him, but I can't get anything definite out of him."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, sir, I take for granted that all your calculations are correct, but allow me to draw from them a rigorous and definite conclusion."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that I have begun, I will have some definite reason, some responsible statement, something in the nature of a real answer, from those people.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It weighed on her, but took no definite form of opposition.
-- More, she had not the mind to get firm hold upon a definite truth.
-- He had no definite plans regarding her, but he was determined to make her confess an affection for him.
-- So distant and definite a point seemed to increase the difficulty.
-- Where great love is not, a more definite and less satisfactory conclusion is reached.
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