imperative是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 紧急的, 必要的; 强制的, [语，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we come here without fear of being turned out (as was threatened just now) because of the imperative tone of our demand, and the unseemliness of such a visit at this late hour (though it was not late when we arrived, we were kept waiting in your anteroom), if, I say, we came in with-out fear, it is just because we expected to find you a man of sense; I mean, a man of honour and conscience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two or three times, the matter in hand became so knotty, that the jackal found it imperative on him to get up, and steep his towels anew.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall have the honour of visit-ing you and paying you my respects at your lodgings not later than to-morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview as he offered me a gross and un-precedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explana-tion upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 14As it was very easy for Kit to persuade himself that the old house was in his way, his way being anywhere, he tried to look upon his passing it once more as a matter of imperative and disagreeable necessity, quite apart from any desire of his own, to which he could not choose but yield.
-- With a third call, more imperative than either of the two former, Nell felt obliged to comply, and this time a chorus was maintained not only by the two men together, but also by the third man on horseback, who being by his position debarred from a nearer participation in the revels of the night, roared when his companions roared, and rent the very air.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must think of my entreaty as a cry forced from me by imperative necessity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imperative mood, present tense: Do not thou go home, let him not go home, let us not go home, do not ye or you go home, let not them go home.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The women were frightened, his voice was so imperative and dangerous, almost mad, not to be opposed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's no matter,' said Mr Pancks, 'I merely wish to remark that the task this Proprietor has set me, has been never to leave off conjugating the Imperative Mood Present Tense of the verb To keep always at it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For One Night Only, On account of imperative European engagements!
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