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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Neither ought nor shall be tarnished by circumstances over which he has had no control,' Duncan warmly replied.
-- In a country of birches, a rod is never seen, and it ought not to appear a marvel in my eyes, that the choicest blessings of Providence are wasted in such cries as these.'
-- A bear ought to climb; therefore will I take a look above them.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She ought never to have married him."
-- "I knew I ought to have gone over myself," said the Colonel.
-- Now something occurred to him that he had not told me before; now he discussed what he ought to have said instead of what he did say; then he lamented his blindness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will.
-- But ought they to establish themselves on this part of the coast, without trying to know to what continent it belonged, if it was inhabited, or if they were on the shore of a desert island?
-- It was a wide extent of marshy land, and they would probably find good sport, for water- birds ought to swarm there.
-- This was certainly a trial which ought to be made.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- This remark being loudly commended and approved of, another lady (from the Minories) put in her word:'Mr Quilp may be a very nice man,' said this lady, 'and I supposed there's no doubt he is, because Mrs Quilp says he is, and Mrs Jiniwin says he is, and they ought to know, or nobody does.
-- 'I know she ought to have, Quilp, and would have, if she was of my way of thinking.'
-- I am very happy still, I ought to feel happier perhaps than I do, but you cannot think how it grieves me sometimes to see him alter so.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Maria Ivanovna said that the girl ought to be taught to work that she might become a useful servant, was exacting, punished, and even beat her when in bad humor.
-- "Even the drivers know of my relations to the Korchagins," thought Nekhludoff, and the unsolved question which continually occupied his mind of late--whether or not he ought to marry Princess Korchagin--again occurred to him, and, like most questions that he was called upon to decide at that time, it remained unsolved.
-- He did not know himself what he wished of her, but it seemed to him that when she entered his room he ought to have done something that any one in his place would have done, but which he failed to do.
-- He should have believed in himself, but he failed to understand that this awkwardness and shame were the noblest feelings of his soul begging for recognition, and, on the contrary, it seemed to him that it was his foolishness that was speaking within him, that he ought to have done as everybody does in a similar case.
-- Without releasing her from his embrace, Nekhludoff seated her on the bed, and feeling that something else ought to be done, seated himself beside her.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners!You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!'
-- 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere and so there are!'
-- A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman in white, shut his eyes and said in a loud voice, 'She ought to know her way to the ticket-office, even if she doesn't know her alphabet!'
-- And now, which of these finger-posts ought I to follow, I wonder?'
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