need是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为aux. v. /v. 需要； 必须n. 需要； 贫困， 困窘，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A young man can see everything at a glance; he feels the radiant influence of woman as a plant discerns and absorbs its nutriment from the air; he did not need to touch her hands to feel their cool freshness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) *keeping*; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
-- Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some oc-casions when I need them most to support my spirits.
-- I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.
-- I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
-- The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour: -The sounding cataract 189 Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite; a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no need to teach any of the men to shoot.
-- "In the name of Heaven, Pa, three thousand!And you didn't need to buy Prissy!"
-- And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant ofbogtrotters had made great fortunes?
-- There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky, he had beenborn with one.
-- The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If your first teacher (dear!such a poor one, and so much in need of being taught herself!)
-- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
-- "What is there in that fellow in the corner yonder,--to use your words,--that I need look at?"
-- No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me; no need to take the handkerchief from his neck and twist it round his head; no need to hug himself with both his arms, and take a shivering turn across the room, looking back at me for recognition.
-- "There ain't no need to go into it," he said, looking round once more.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the man, 'you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!'
-- We will set it beneath the altar, and not touch it until we are really in need of it.'
-- 'Oh, yes,' he replied, 'I will soon subdue the giants, and do not require the help of the hundred horsemen to do it; he who can hit seven with one blow has no need to be afraid of two.'
-- 'You need not concern yourself about that,' an-swered the tailor, 'they have not bent one hair of mine.'
-- How they did rejoice and embrace each other, and dance about and kiss each other!And as they had no longer any need to fear her, they went into the witch's house, and in every corner there stood chests full of pearls and jewels.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by 152 Gulliver's Travelsattempting to leap over it.
-- That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty's king-dom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.'
-- I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grat-ing upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examina-tion, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.
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