ought是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为aux. 应该(使用时, 之后应接to, 再接动词原形),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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was much upon my mind (particularly when I first saw him looking about for his file) that I ought to tell Joe the whole truth.
-- I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume that expression.
-- Besides being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted to my diet,--besides giving me as much crumb as possible in combination with as little butter, and putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,--his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic.
-- But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow.
-- I determined to ask Joe why he had ever taught me to call those picture-cards Jacks, which ought to be called knaves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I ought to have something into the bargain,' said the countryman; 'give a fat goose for a pig, indeed!
-- But his wife said, 'Pray let the poor faithful creature live; he has served us well a great many years, and we ought to give him a live-lihood for the rest of his days.'
-- said the fisherman, 'she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.'
-- 'Wife,' said the fisherman, 'I don't like to go to him again, for perhaps he will be angry; we ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in.'
-- So he began, and told all the story of the princess, as if it was one that he had once heard; and he asked the true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who would behave thus.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You ought to have seen her!Well, and this morning I met this divine countess about nine o'clock, on foot in the Rue de Gres.
-- ); that as Victorine's mother had nothing when he married her, Victorine ought not to expect anything from him; in fact, he said the most cruel things, that made the poor child burst out crying.
-- I ought to stop in my corner, grind away at law, and never look to be anything but a boorish country magistrate.
-- "A marquis here in Paris, if he is not the veriest sham, ought to have a hundred thousand livres a year at least; and a lodger in the Maison Vauquer is not exactly Fortune's favorite."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I agree with you,' replied the stranger; 'we are unfash-ioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves such a friend ought to be do not 20 Frankensteinlend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.
-- My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler 40 Frankensteinhas not seized.
-- I requested his ad-vice concerning the books I ought to procure.
-- He then took me into his labora-tory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promis-ing me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.
-- A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peace-ful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- God'lmighty, Ma ought to stop licking us!We're nineteen and Tom's twenty-one, and she acts like we're six yearsold."
-- How shocked if she suddenly climbed on the bandstand and declared that she thought the war ought to stop, soeverybody could go home and tend to their cotton and there could be parties and beaux again and plenty of pale greendresses.
-- But a lot of the militia areperfectly able to tote a rifle and that's what they ought to be doing this minute."
-- We ought to have three convalescents in our house this minute,like everybody else, and some of the soldiers out to dinner every Sunday.
-- "You young misses ought ter tek shame, gittin' Miss Pitty in a state," he scolded.
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