校園英語口語習慣用語 第102期:for certain

for certain 確定無疑地

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【講解】

此語意爲“確定無疑地”，作爲副詞短語作狀 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.(我說不準他什麼時候來。）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。