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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.
-- So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.
-- "At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good mind to flog them all round thought, upon the whole, he would do so he ought to justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.
-- He averred, that upon first thrusting in for him, a leg was presented; but well knowing that that was not as it ought to be, and might occasion great trouble; he had thrust back the leg, and by a dexterous heave and toss, had wrought a somerset upon the Indian; so that with the next trial, he came forth in the good old way head foremost.
-- Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not having a very clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather astounded by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry.
-- As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labour under the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death already, it occurred to him that the board had, perhaps, in some unaccountable freak, taken it into their heads that this extraneous circumstance ought to influence their proceedings.
-- 'No,' replied Mr. Limbkins; 'at least, as it's a nasty business, we think you ought to take something less than the premium we offered.'
-- 'So are the coffins,' replied the beadle: with precisely as near an approach to a laugh as a great official ought to indulge in.
-- Mr. Sowerberry was much tickled at this: as of course he ought to be; and laughed a long time without cessation.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.'
-- She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.
-- 'He is just what a young man ought to be,' said she, 'sen- sible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! so much ease, with such perfect good breed- ing!'
-- 'He is also handsome,' replied Elizabeth, 'which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can.
-- 'It ought to be good,' he replied, 'it has been the work of many generations.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melan-choly, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voy-age only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone 'Young man,' says he, 'you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.'
-- As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours, and should be ashamed to see, not my father and mother only, but even everybody else; from whence I have since of-ten observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz.
-- that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be es-teemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.
-- Had I used half as much pru-dence to have looked into my own interest, and have made a judgment of what I ought to have done and not to have done, I had certainly never gone away from so prosperous an undertaking, leaving all the probable views of a thriving circumstance, and gone upon a voyage to sea, attended with all its common hazards, to say nothing of the reasons I had to expect particular misfortunes to myself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, 'You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army.
-- We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.
-- 'We ought to rehearse tonight.
-- We ought to have our roll of directions, like Christian.
-- A stout little retainer came in with chains and led them away, looking very much frightened and evidently forgetting the speech he ought to have made.
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