校園英語口語習慣用語第102期:for certain
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for certain 確定無疑地
【講解】
此語意為“確定無疑地”,作為副詞短語作狀 語,修飾動詞,常與know, say等詞連用,例如:I cannot say for certain when he will ar-rive.(我説不準他什麼時候來。)動詞短語 make certain指“弄清楚,弄明白”,例如:He makes certain that all the facts are correct.(他査明所有事實都正確無誤。)
【對話】
A:How're you going to prepare for the test?
A:你想怎樣複習來準備這場考試?
B:Well, I'm not going to learn the grammatical rules by heart.
B:嗯,我不會去背語法規則的。
A:But those are exactly the things I was going to do.
A:可這正是我要做的。
B:No, you don't have to do that. The teacher is going to examine the language skills, not language knowledge.
B:不,用不着。老師要考的是語言技巧,不是語言知識。
A:Are you sure?
A:你敢肯定?
B:I say this for certain.
B:絕對肯定。