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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I want to know where from?"
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of time for want of books, and pen and ink, and should even forget the Sabbath days; but to prevent this, I cut with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters - and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed - 'I came on shore here on the 30th September 1659.'
-- In the next place, we are to observe that among the many things which I brought out of the ship, in the several voy-ages which, as above mentioned, I made to it, I got several things of less value, but not at all less useful to me, which I omitted setting down before; as, in particular, pens, ink, and paper, several parcels in the captain's, mate's, gunner's and carpenter's keeping; three or four compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspectives, charts, and books of navigation, all which I huddled together, whether I might want them or no; also, I found three very good Bibles, which came to me in my cargo from England, and which I had packed up among my things; some Portuguese books also; and among them two or three Popish prayer-books, and several other books, all which I carefully secured.
-- And this put me in mind that I wanted many things not-withstanding all that I had amassed together; and of these, ink was one; as also a spade, pickaxe, and shovel, to dig or remove the earth; needles, pins, and thread; as for linen, I soon learned to want that without much difficulty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no addition at all.
-- Altogether, they will have five hundred a-year amongst them, and what on earth can four women want for more than that? They will live so cheap!Their housekeeping will be nothing at all.
-- His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence.
-- There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
-- It was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You want to see Lincoln Park," he said, "and Michigan Boulevard.
-- "You'll want to see the city first, won't you?"
-- "Perhaps," she thought, "they may want some one," and crossed over to enter.
-- "I want to see the manager," she said.
-- "Oh, you want to see Mr. McManus," he returned.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I didn't want him to try.
-- Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?'
-- that's the thing I want to get at.
-- Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular, or don't you?
-- You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I want a piece of wood to make a Marionette.
-- "I am not surprised he doesn't want to go home.
-- They are sent to school, and whether they want to or not, they must study.
-- He called down angrily: "What do you want at this hour of night?"
-- It was his own fault, for I didn't want to kill him.
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