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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; nei-ther do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
-- But when some confessed they owed their greatness and wealth to sodomy, or incest; others, to the prostituting of their 252 Gulliver's Travelsown wives and daughters; others, to the betraying of their country or their prince; some, to poisoning; more to the perverting of justice, in order to destroy the innocent, I hope I may be pardoned, if these discoveries inclined me a little to abate of that profound veneration, which I am nat-urally apt to pay to persons of high rank, who ought to be treated with the utmost respect due to their sublime dignity, by us their inferiors.
-- Therefore he desired to be further satisfied what I meant by law, and the dispensers thereof, according to the present practice in my own country; because he thought nature and reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what he ought to do, and what to avoid.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thomas Gradgrind took no heed of these trivialities of course, but passed on as a practical man ought to pass on, either brushing the noisy insects from his thoughts, or consigning them to the House of Correction.
-- 'Didn't do what he ought to do.
-- 'Really,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'the period has arrived when Thomas ought to go to Bounderby.'
-- But perhaps I ought to do so.
-- It was generally considered, indeed, that she had been due some time, and ought to have fallen long ago; but she had kept her life, and her situation, with an ill-conditioned tenacity that occasioned much offence and disappointment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And my uncle ought to have known, for he was a perfect polyglot dictionary in himself.
-- On Friday evening, the tenth of July, according to our estimation, we ought to have been thirty leagues to the southeast of Reykjavik, and about two leagues and a half deep.
-- "Well, your head, except that you have one or two contusions, is exactly where it ought to be- on your shoulders," said my uncle, laughing.
-- "Under the circumstances," he said, "I ought to neglect no precautions.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is the last moment when I ought to hate you,' she said resentfully.
-- But if you had...' 'If you HAVE the proper sort of emotion or sympathy with a woman, you OUGHT to sleep with her,' said May.
-- If we stick to that we ought to be able to arrange this sex thing, as we arrange going to the dentist; since fate has given us a checkmate physically there.'
-- 'No doubt water ought not to be so wet as it is; it overdoes it in wetness.
-- 'I think they ought to.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His head was awry, and he had a one-sided, crab-like way with him, as if his foundations had yielded at about the same time as those of the house, and he ought to have been propped up in a similar manner.
-- 'By rights,' remarked the turnkey when she was first shown to him, 'I ought to be her godfather.'
-- 'Well, my dear,' said the turnkey, 'something ought to be done with him.
-- He boasted that he stood up litigiously for the interests of the college; and he had undefined and undefinable ideas that the marshal intercepted a 'Fund,' which ought to come to the collegians.
-- I ought to have let it alone.
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