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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Hans; 'I should be the happiest man in the world, if I could have money whenever I put my hand in my pocket: what could I want more?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.
-- But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dan- 67gerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to man-age, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- At last, I fixed upon a resolution, for which it is probable I may incur some censure, and not unjustly; for I confess I owe the preserving of mine eyes, and consequently my liberty, to my own great rashness and want of experience; because, if I had then known the nature of princes and ministers, which I have since observed in many other courts, and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should, with great alacrity and readiness, have submitted 85to so easy a punishment.
-- I shall not trouble the reader with the particular account of my reception at this court, which was suitable to the gen-erosity of so great a prince; nor of the difficulties I was in for want of a house and bed, being forced to lie on the ground, wrapped up in my coverlet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE ONE THING NEEDFUL'Now, what I want is, Facts.
-- 'In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!'
-- 'We don't want to know anything about that, here.
-- What can you possibly want to know of circuses then?
-- As haggard and as shabby, as if, for want of custom, it had itself taken to drinking, and had gone the way all drunkards go, and was very near the end of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He will want to follow in the footsteps of the other!
-- I want to cure you of a bad habit."
-- I want to know how we are to get up again."
-- My uncle shook his head with the air of a man who does not want to be convinced.
-- "This wretched want of water," he said, "is the sole obstacle to the success of my project.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Connie did want children: if only to fortify her against her sister-in-law Emma.
-- It twitched her limbs when she didn't want to twitch them, it jerked her spine when she didn't want to jerk upright but preferred to rest comfortably.
-- 'I don't want Clifford to know not even to suspect.
-- We don't want to follow a man into the w.c., so why should we want to follow him into bed with a woman?
-- 'As a matter of fact,' said the lean and freckled Tommy Dukes, who looked much more Irish than May, who was pale and rather fat: 'As a matter of fact, Hammond, you have a strong property instinct, and a strong will to self-as-sertion, and you want success.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An evil star occasioned Madame Rigaud to advert to her relations; I reasoned with her on that subject, and remonstrated on the want of duty and devotion manifested in her allowing herself to be influenced by their jealous animosity towards her husband.
-- What secular want could the million or so of human beings whose daily labour, six days in the week, lay among these Arcadian objects, from the sweet sameness of which they had no escape between the cradle and the grave what secular want could they possibly have upon their seventh day?
-- Clearly they could want nothing but a stringent policeman.
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