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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, yes!He don't want no wittles."
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- There's a subject!If you want a subject, look at Pork!"
-- "Excuse me, ladies and gentleman," said the sergeant, "but as I have mentioned at the door to this smart young shaver," (which he hadn't), "I am on a chase in the name of the king, and I want the blacksmith."
-- "And pray what might you want with him?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the fox said, 'Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.
-- All went right: then the fox said, 'When you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to the king; and when he sees that it is the right horse, he will bring out the bird; but you must sit still, and say that you want to look at it, to see whether it is the true golden bird; and when you get it into your hand, ride away.'
-- How-ever, the horseman got off, took the silver, helped Hans up, gave him the bridle into one hand and the whip into the other, and said, 'When you want to go very fast, smack your lips loudly together, and cry 'Jip!''
-- Why, you must turn grinder like myself,' said the other; 'you only want a grindstone; the rest will come of itself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What you want is a friend who will give the monster a piece of his mind; a barbarian that has three millions (so they say), and will not give you a dowry; and a pretty girl needs a dowry nowadays."
-- he cried pettishly, "just stay a moment, dear; you know very well that----" "I am coming back in a minute," she interrupted; "I have a commission for Maxime to execute, and I want to tell him about it."
-- M. de Trailles addressed the Count, the Countess, and Eugene with the pointed remark, "You are busy, I do not want to interrupt you; good-day," and he went.
-- How can I go into society, when to manage properly you want a lot of cabs, varnished boots, gold watch chains, and all sorts of things; you have to wear white doeskin gloves that cost six francs in the morning, and primrose kid gloves every evening?
-- I am in a position to make a rapid fortune, but I want twelve hundred francs--I must have them at all costs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil.
-- You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.
-- 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.
-- Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protec-tion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I swear I don't want to go home and listen to Matake on about us being expelled.
-- The outfit was as yet unnamed, though not for want ofsuggestions.
-- "Well, it wouldn't be right to make Jeems face what we don't want to face.
-- "No, I want to sit here and watch the sunset.
-- "I don't want to go to Charleston or have a house or marrythe twins.
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