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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I want to get down to the bottom of this disease stuff.
-- I want to take bacteriology--now!"
-- "I don't want to influence anybody.
-- I want to learn the doctor trade and make six thousand dollars a year."
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 want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles,' he thought, with an odd smile.
-- He longed for a drink of cold beer, and attributed his sudden weakness to the want of food.
-- 'Since then, sir,' he went on after a brief pause 'Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through in-formation given by evil- intentioned persons in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yel-low ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
-- 'What a stupid thing I've done,' he thought to himself, 'they have Sonia and I want it myself.'
-- 'And you want to get a fortune all at once?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Drive!I don't want no driving,' returned Mr. Peggotty, with anhonest laugh.
-- 'I don't want to see him.'
-- At last in my desolation Ibegan to consider that I was dreadfully in love with little Em'ly,and had been torn away from her to come here where no oneseemed to want me, or to care about me, half as much as she did.
-- 'I don't want anybody to go.
-- I only want to be consulted sometimes.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of every day.
-- 'Well,' said Emma, willing to let it pass 'you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.
-- But if you want to shew him any attention, my dear, ask him to come and dine with us some day.
-- It was most unlikely, therefore, that he should ever want his father's assistance.
-- She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her compan-ionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little dif-ficulties and privations.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having for some time known the want of a satisfactory form to fill an increasing void within him, his position moreover affording the widest scope for his fancy, he painted her a beauty.
-- His want of tact had deeply offended her not by seeing what he could not help, but by letting her know that he had seen it.
-- You may if you want to."
-- Gabriel felt himself guilty of another want of tact.
-- A voice came from behind some laurel-bushes into which the cat had run:"Poor dear!Did a nasty brute of a dog want to kill it; did he, poor dear!"
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