certitude

UK:  ['sɜː(r)tɪtjuːd]

US:  ['sɜrtɪ.tud]

复数：certitudes  

n.

1.确信;确定

2.确实(性),必然性

1 . Currently. the prince made a certitude that he has found a real princess and married her.
此时，王子终于确定自己找到了一位真正的公主，于是便娶了她为妻。

2 . If I had to suggest one single reason for that, it's our love of certitude.
如果非要找出一个原因的话，那就是我们太偏爱确定性了。

3 . They are often supporters of war, of righteous certitude about America as an enforcer of "our values" around the world.
他们经常是战争、正义的支持者，确信美国是世界上“价值观”的执行者。

4 . She knew it with silent certitude, as though she had seen him do it.
她沉默了，就像她看到他那样做。

5 . It comes as an admission that our understandings owe a debt to, are leavened and clarified by, the certitude of our own end.
这样的平静来自于我们认识到对于我们终点的确定性，影响并使我们明晰对于人生的理解。