want是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 想要； 希望； 需要； 缺， 缺少n. 需要； 短缺，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why can-not we be friends?'
-- Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'
-- We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.
-- 'You'll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?'
-- 'What do you want with me?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why do you want to know?'
-- 'I want a passenger, if it is.'
-- 'I shall not go to bed till night; but I want a bedroom, and a barber.'
-- Don't be a moment behind them, for I want you to take the verdict back to the bank.
-- 'I neither want any thanks, nor merit any,' was the care-less rejoinder.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I want some one to take 10 Andersen's Fairy Talescare of the pigs, for we have a great many of them.'
-- 'Does your honor want to cross the ferry to the Holme?'
-- But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was with-out genius, etc.
-- I want something better than what is but what is fled in an instant.
-- The Tree only came to himself when he was unloaded in a court-yard with the other trees, and heard a man say, 'That one is splendid!We don't want the others.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You want to try it on," Matvey understood, but he only said, "Yes sir."
-- Levin arrived in Moscow always excited and in a hurry, rather ill at ease and irritated by his own want of ease, and for the most part with a perfectly new, unexpected view of things.
-- You know I want very much to talk to you," said Levin.
-- But I have nothing very particular, only a few words to say, and a question I want to ask you, and we can have a talk afterwards."
-- But I tell you what; if you want to see them, they're sure now to be at the Zoological Gardens from four to five.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I want to have a serious talk with you."
-- "Well, what do you want of me?"
-- It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the steam had slackened; and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was just wondering," Martin complained, and he drifted to the College Inn where, in an injured and melancholy manner, he devoured an enormous banana-split and a bar of almond chocolate, as he meditated: "I want to take bacteriology.
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