certain
美 [ˈsɜrt(ə)n]
英 [ˈsɜː(r)t(ə)n] 
- adj.肯定;确定;确信;无疑
- pron.(不提及人或事物的名称时用)某些
- 网络确定的;肯定的;一定的
反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | 确实;确定;肯定that you can rely on to happen or to be true |
| The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful. 救援行动如果今天不能成功,登山队员必死无疑。 |
| It is certain that they will agree. 他们一定会同意。 |
| She looks certain to win an Oscar. 看来奥斯卡金像奖非她莫属。 |
| They are certain to agree. 他们一定会同意。 |
| If you want to be certain of getting a ticket, book now. 要想有把握买到票,现在就得预订。 |
2. | 确信;确定;无疑firmly believing sth; having no doubts |
| She wasn't certain (that) he had seen her. 她不敢肯定他见过她。 |
| Are you absolutely certain about this? 你对这事绝对确信无疑吗? |
| I'm not certain who was there. 我无法确定谁当时在场。 |
| To my certain knowledge he was somewhere else at the time(= I am sure about it) . 我敢肯定他当时不在现场。 |
3. | (不提及细节时用)某事,某人,某种used to mention a particular thing, person or group without giving any more details about it or them |
| For certain personal reasons I shall not be able to attend. 由于某种个人原因,我将不能出席。 |
| Certain people might disagree with this. 某些人对这事可能不会赞同。 |
| They refused to release their hostages unless certain conditions were met. 除非某些条件得到满足,否则他们不会释放人质。 |
4. | (与人名连用,表示说话者不识其人)某某,某位,一位叫…的used with a person's name to show that the speaker does not know the person |
| It was a certain Dr Davis who performed the operation. 是一位叫戴维斯的医生做的手术。 |
5. | 轻微的;微小的;显而易见却难以描述的slight; noticeable, but difficult to describe |
| That's true, to a certain extent . 在一定程度上的确如此。 |
| I felt there was a certain coldness in her manner. 我觉得她的态度有点冷淡。 |
1. | (不提及人或事物的名称时用)某些used for talking about some members of a group of people or things without giving their names |
| Certain of those present were unwilling to discuss the matter further. 某些在场的人不愿意进一步讨论这个问题。 |
习惯用语
for certain
| I can't say for certain when we'll arrive. 我说不准我们什么时候能到。 |
make certain (that…)
弄确实;弄清楚;弄明白to find out whether sth is definitely true
| I think there's a bus at 8 but you'd better call to make certain. 好像 8 点有一班公共汽车,不过你最好打电话弄清楚。 |
make certain of sth/of doing sth
确保(做某事)to do sth in order to be sure that sth else will happen
| You'll have to leave soon to make certain of getting there on time. 你得快点出发,好确保准时到达那里。 |
of a certain age
不算年轻的;年纪不轻的;中年的if you talk about a person beingof a certain age , you mean that they are no longer young but not yet old
| The show appeals to an audience of a certain age. 这个节目中年观众感兴趣。 |
英汉解释
adj. | 1. 某,某一;某种,某些;相当的,一定程度的;(某种)不好意思说出来的 3. (数量,日期等)已确定的;(证据等)确凿的,无疑的;(知识,技术等)正确的,可靠的 |
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英英解释
例句
The only way of avoiding this problem would be if, for some reason, the stars did not shine before a certain time.
唯一避免这种问题的办法是,因为某些原因,星体在一端时间以前是不发光的。
A PHP function that can output how much a user would need to donate to get a certain amount of GD.
一个PHP函数,可以输出多少用户需要获得捐赠一定数额的GD。
Well, not until a certain git by the name of Lockhart took over as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, at any rate.
呵呵,直到有天有个叫洛哈特的饭桶当了黑魔法防御术老师,情况就不同啦。
As the modern logistics develops to a certain stage, Logistics Park is beginning to be produced.
物流园区是现代物流发展到一定阶段的产物。
This overseas experience can be extended by up to a year, allowing students to complete an MBA at certain academic partners.
海外经历可以延长至一年,允许学生在学术伙伴处完成工商管理硕士学位。
Nutritional deficiencies do seem to be the cause of certain cases of low testosterone.
营养不良看来确实是导致某些病例睾丸激素偏低的原因。
And then, like every leader, they've got to have a certain sort of pizzaz that gets people excited.
就像所有领导人,他们必须有能振奋人心的特质。
So, if you have recombination at a certain frequency, I can say exactly how much that helps or hurts the fitness of the population.
因此,如果你获得一定水平的重组率,我可以准确得出它在多大程度上促进或损害人口的适应性。
After a certain number of points, the players changed round so that neither could benefit unduly from the wind or the position of the sun.
达到一定比分后,运动员就互换场地,这样双方都不致由于风向和阳光的位置而独得优势。
Interestingly enough I also discovered what appeared to be uncensored internet available at a certain library in Tehran.
有趣的是,我发现德黑兰某些图书馆的计算机网络,并没有受到过滤审查的机制的影响。
NA: At a certain point the "Warhol" films began to be directed, wholly or largely, by your friend and fellow Factory worker Paul Morrissey.
安:从某个时候开始,“沃霍尔”电影开始全部或大部分由你的朋友、“工厂”合作伙伴保罗-莫里西(PaulMorrissey)执导。
GDP refers to the total values of all the ultimate products for a certain period of time of all the permanent units of a country.
GDP是指一国所有常住单位在一定时期内生产的全部最终产品的价值总和。
In marrying you, she was in this mix-up and might have remained so but for a certain break.
嫁给你之后,她一直就是浑浑噩噩的,而且,除非分手,否则还会这么浑噩下去。
It have been found that there was a certain relation between the dyeing properties and crystal phase, particle size of acid dyes.
试验表明酸性染料的染色性能与染料的晶相和粒子大小有着一定的关系。
I'm certain that the destiny of each one of us and Asia as a whole will depend on how well we adjust to this very profound transformation.
我确信我们每个人的命运,以及整个亚洲的命运取决于我们能在多大程度上适应这一深刻的转变。
Certain materials are electroluminescent, and this electroluminescent effect has been used in the construction of backlights for displays.
某些材料是电致发光的,电致发光效应在显示器的背光的结构中被使用。
Just a few more minutes of catching fireflies on a lazy summer evening. So what if that certain TV show was on?
要是再多一会儿,和孩子们在夏日慵懒的晚上一快捉萤火虫,即便那定时要收看的电视节目已经上映了又何妨?
The unauthorized alteration of certain system files is one of the symptoms of an active attack, or compromise upon a system.
对系统特定文件的未授权改变是对系统进行攻击和危害活动的表现之一。
Try to be able to provide certain theory and carry out a reference for Chinese occupation basketball harmonious, healthy development.
试图能为中国职业篮球的和谐、健康发展提供一定的理论和实践参考。
More to the point, could any modern writer be certain their lives would still be interesting to anyone so long after their death?
举例来说,哪位现代作家能确定自己的生平事迹在自己去世后如此之久仍有人感兴趣呢?
When Haldeman was assigned to such a task, one could be certain that the manager meant business.
当霍尔德曼接受这样一个任务时,人们可以肯定地认为,经理不是在说着玩的。
She very soon discovered that there was a charm about fine clothes which attracted a certain class of people and secured their respect.
她很快发现讲究的服饰的确很有媚力,吸引了某一种人,并且博得了他们的敬重。
He wasn't certain whether the men sided with him.
他拿不准弟兄们到底会不会向着他。
When certain of my friends pursued, thinking to have me back, he claps me in the rear to stand their shot.
等到我的朋友们赶来,想把我夺回去,他又把我搁在后边挡他们的箭。
Doubtless there was a certain struggle and a certain relief.
毫无疑问,有过一番思想斗争,也如释重负。
The economic character of the district may rise or fall as the result of certain types of invasion.
随着某种类型的入侵现象,一个地区原有的经济特征可能随之发展或衰退。
You'll have to leave soon to make certain of getting there on time.
你得快点出发,好确保准时到达那里。
But I was certain that we would not have to wait long for a chilly blast from Moscow.
但我断定,要不了多久,莫斯科就会刮来一股冷风。
At any rate, I was very certain that I would not attempt to attain unending life.
任何情况下,我都可以斩钉截铁地说:我自己是决不会追求什么永恒的生命的。
In this collection there was a certain continuity of personnel and anecdote in one series of five letters.
在这本书信集里,每5封信成一组,其中的人物和轶事有一定的连续性。
Every man feels from his soul that he has got to carry his life to a certain depth.
每个人都打心里感到,他必须使人生过得有意义。
There was such a collapse of order that it was absolutely certain that there was no solution to the problem.
局势彻底乱了套,以致绝对肯定,没有任何办法来解决问题。
She was not an established writer, though some of her early themes showed a certain originality.
她那时还不是成名的作家,尽管她早期有些题材已经显示了她有某种独创才能。
On this account he might, in certain lights, have been regarded as one of the most fortunate of his order.
由于这个原因,从某些方面来看,他也许会被认为是他的同类中最幸运的人。
Certain men did as they pleased, society did not seem to be able to deal with them in any way.
有些人做事就是随心所欲,社会好象无论如何都对付不了他们。
He stared at her grimly; he had never been certain how fond of each other the sisters were in life.
他冷冷地注视着她,他始终不清楚原先姐妹之间的感情究竟有多深。
In photographic photometry we use photographic plates of a certain region of the sky to determine the coordinates of the stars.
在照相测光中,我们利用所拍摄的天空某一区域的照相底片来测定恒星的坐标。
And your father (the worthy, Christian man)began to sicken for his end, he gave me in charge a certain letter.
你的爸爸也身染重病,他,一个高贵的基督教徒,在他垂危的时候,把一封信托付我保管。
The name "city" was given to a settlement because it had achieved a certain degree of political autonomy from the central government.
一片居住区之所以能被冠以“城市”的名称,是因为它从中央政府那里取得了一定程度的政治自治权。
They needed a certain picture of the world; there was one way of living they preferred above all others.
他们需要关于世界的某种图景;他们选择某一种生活方式,把它凌驾于其他生活方式之上。
He desired I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me.
他盼望我不要见怪,如果他命令几个主管官吏来搜查我。
Certain compounds can enter and spread throughout the interior of the cell only after the surface has been punctured.
只有在细胞表面被戳破以后,某些化合物才能进入并散布整个细胞内部。
I've penciled you in for the match on Sunday; tell me as soon as you know for certain if you can play.
我暂定你星期六参加比赛,如果你肯定能参加,请尽快告诉我。
We have seen that every particular social happening, every single event in social life, can be said to be new, in a certain sense.
我们已看到,每一个特定的社会事件,社会生活的每一件事,在某种意义上都可以说是新的。
I found that the students had no rules-they didn't have to be in by a certain time of night.
我发现学生们好象没有章法,他们连晚上何时回校的规定也没有。
He would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature.
他会经常采纳他认为真正违背自己天性的思想方法。
There was about Clyde at times a certain strain of tenderness, evoked by experiences, disappointments, and hardships in his own life.
克莱德有时也很有点温柔劲儿,这是他自己一生中的遭遇、挫折和艰苦熔铸成的。
His real feeling was belied to a certain extent by his strained, pale face and somewhat hazy stare.
他那紧张苍白的脸和茫然的眼神,一定程度上掩饰了他的真实心情。
All this, he told us, not only with the utmost brilliancy and enjoyment, but with a certain vivacious candor.
他对我们说的这些话,不仅说的非常精采和引人入胜,而且在一定程度上也说得很愉快,很坦白。
Perhaps the insults of the men were not, however, so intolerable to her as the sympathy of certain women.
对于她来说,男人们的侮辱虽然难受,恐怕还不如有些女人的同情那么刺心。
You can apply styles to an individual component using a class selector, or to all components of a certain type using a type selector.
你可以通过一个类选择器将样式应用于单独的组件,或所有的组件。
If twins had been born to the family insured, the company would have had to pay a certain amount of money to the parents.
如果投险家庭生出双胞胎,保险公司将必须支付一定数量的钱给父母。
Scientists, doing the best they can up to this point, have found certain codings within certain portions of the DNA.
科学家,这表明他们可以在这点上做得最好,已经发现内部DNA某个部分某个编码。
Hazard assessment has a certain purity, but that purity is often irrelevant to real risk.
危险性评估有其确定性,但这种确定性常与真实风险不相关。
You're committed to losing those excess pounds, but every time you go out with a certain friend, she tries to get you to order dessert.
你下定决心要减肥,可每次你和某位朋友出去吃饭,她总是试图让你点甜点。
It is always just a small difference: Top performers just do certain things a certain way a little bit better each day.
永远只是差一点:表现好的人只是用特定的方式做特定的事,每天取得一点进步。
When a man swindles the public out of a certain amount he begins to get scared and wants to return parts of it.
当一个人从大伙身上诈骗了相当可观的数目时,他就不免有点胆怯,总想吐出一部分。
cuts a good flat piece of paper, the situation is much better, at least it has a certain storage after cutting.
如果直接购进分切好的平张纸,情况要好得多,至少它分切后有一定存贮过程。
There was a certain wisdom in his mother's words, he thought.
他想,母亲的话中有一定的哲理。
Under certain scenarios it is possible for a Word file to be modified in such a way that a macro could run with no warning issued.
在某些方案中,有可能会在不发出警告的情况下运行某个宏来修改Word文件。
It is by making the front car with a relatively flat vertical deflection of a certain angle to the realization.
它是通过使前轮相对与汽车纵向平面偏转一定的角度来实现转向的。
The name "city" was given to a settlement because it had achieved a certain degree of political autonomy from the central government.
一片居住区之所以能被冠以“城市”的名称,是因为它从中央政府那里取得了一定程度的政治自治权。
And what our strategy is going to be, is to determine what are the probabilities that molecules are in certain states with certain energies.
我们的想法是,去确定分子处于某个状态,同时具有某个能量的概率。
He, for his part, also had a certain sense of the topos, when what was in question was the order of nature.
就他而言,他也有某些这种「地形学」的感觉,当自然的秩序在这里被置疑到。
certain issues were brought up to me that I felt, you know, I can voice my opinion, I can change how the world is.
某些问题在我身上出现,让我感觉,你知道,我能说出自己的观点,我能改变这个世界的方式。
appropriate reminder as a supplement, both the children face, but also to give the child a certain degree of psychological experience.
适当的提醒作为补充,既给孩子面子,也要让孩子有一定的心理体验。
"This time I knew there was a certain amount of money, there was a date, a place to shoot, " he says.
“这一次我知道有一定数额的资金,有一个日期,拍摄地点,”他说。
The test result shows that this algorithm can be used for traffic warning to a certain extent to reduce traffic accidents.
测试表明,本文所提算法能够在一定程度上对交通事故进行提前预警,对于减少和避免交通事故发生具有重要意义。
Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.
以你目前这个模样,却想到处传播你的儒学思想,肯定是处处碰壁,徒有满腔热情也是枉然的。
The book can also be used to call upon certain magical spells to help defend the clan, gain knowledge and punish offenders.
这本书也可以用来召唤法术协助防御氏族,获取知识和惩罚罪犯。
Some of her early themes showed a certain originality.
她早期的有些题材显示她有某种独创才能。
There were, certain differences he had never perceived, certain habits he had never formed, certain obscurities he had never sounded.
有些差异他从没觉察,有些习惯他从未形成,有些秘密他从不理解。
Through these poems we are enabled confidently to state that certain things were known among the Greeks before they entered civilization.
我们通过这些诗篇可以有把握地断言,希腊人在进入文明阶段以前即已知道了某些事物。
You ought to use a little imagination about clothes-encourage certain aspects of your character.
在穿衣服方面,你应该使用一点想象力--来突出你的个性。
Sometimes, when it was really necessary to get a job done by a certain time, they had to work late, perhaps till eight or nine o'clock.
有时候干一件真正需要限期完成的活,他们只得干到很晚,说不定直到晚上八、九点钟才收工。
The study of custom can be profitable only after certain preliminary propositions have been accepted.
研究风俗习惯只有在接受了某些先决命题之后才能有所得益。
I admit that the first sentence of this passage points to certain differences between social and physical science.
我承认这段话的第一句是针对社会科学和自然科学之间的某些区别而言。
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity.
有一位哲学家曾说过,宇宙间伟大的事无过于好人同祸患奋斗。
Because of local resistance, federal intervention may be necessary to designate certain sites for hazardous-waste-disposal facilities.
由于地方上的阻力,或许有必要通过联邦政府的调解来指定某些近便的有害废物处理场。
Some varieties of fruits will not set fruit when planting alone or with certain other varieties of the same fruit.
有些品种单独栽培或与同系统的其他品种混栽,则不结果。