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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Affery, woman, have you found what you want yet?'
-- She's failing in health, and she'll want pretty constant attendance up in her room, and we shall have to be much with her, and there'll be nobody about now but ourselves when we're away from her, and altogether it will be more convenient.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I agree not to expect any-thing from Mother or you, but I do want to buy UNDINE AND SINTRAM for myself.
-- 'It is only another name for trying to be good, and the story may help us, for though we do want to be good, it's hard work and we forget, and don't do our best.'
-- I thought it was better to do it so, be-cause Meg's initials are M.M., and I don't want anyone to use these but Marmee,' said Beth;, looking troubled.
-- But I want to say one word before we sit down.
-- You may laugh, if you want to.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supper? you want supper?
-- I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer.
-- "Supposing it be the captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of him?"
-- But flukes!man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh? it looks a little suspicious, don't it, eh? Hast not been a pirate, hast thou? Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou? Dost not think of murdering the officers when thou gettest to sea?"
-- I want to know that before I think of shipping ye."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed.
-- He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: 'Please, sir, I want some more.'
-- 'Please, sir,' replied Oliver, 'I want some more.'
-- He seems to want it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in Ipossession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
-- 'Do you not want to know who has taken it?'
-- 'YOU want to tell me, and I have no objection to hear-ing it.'
-- I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals.'
-- 'You dislike an argument, and want to silence this.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a- fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth - the Maresco, as they called him - to catch a dish of fish for him.
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