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：
-- I mean to try and succeed where Krick, the missionary so unfortunately failed in 1846; in a word, I want to follow the course of the river Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou, which waters Thibet for a distance of 1500 kilometres, flowing along the northern base of the Himalayas, and to find out at last whether this river does not join itself to the Brahmapoutre in the northeast of As-sam.
-- To mistake a railway or to take the train to Edinburgh when you want to go to Dumbarton might happen; but to mistake a ship and be sailing for Chili when you meant to go to India—that is a blunder indeed!
-- "Then you don't want to see.
-- Come, now, tell me, you want me very much to stay, don't you?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I want to know why the word 'moor' should have been written?'
-- 'You will tell him that you want to see the waste-paper of yesterday.
-- 'First of all your name and address, in case I want you again.'
-- You only want to get a glimpse of his face to see that.
-- What does man want more?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now then, prince, sit down here, no, nearer, come nearer the light!I want to have a good look at you.
-- I want to hear you relate something.
-- I want to judge wheth-er he is a good story-teller; anything you like, prince-how you liked Switzerland, what was your first impression, any-thing.
-- 'I would much rather not, just now,' said the prince, a little disturbed and frowning slightly; ' You don't seem to want to tell us,' said Aglaya, with a mocking air. '
-- 'I do so want to hear about it,' repeated Adelaida.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, if ever I want to sack a city belonging to friends of yours, you must not try to stop me; you will have to let me do it, for I am giving in to you sorely against my will.
-- If you want to find your way into the host of the Tro-jans, there are the Thracians, who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp; and they have Rhesus son of Eioneus for their king.
-- What do you want with me?'
-- Before him he held his shield of hammered bronze, that the smith had beaten so fair and round, and had lined with ox hides which he had made fast with rivets of gold all round the shield; this he held in front of him, and brandishing his two spears came on like some lion of the wilderness, who has been long famished for want of meat and will dare break even into a well-fenced homestead to try and get at the sheep.
-- I want no fetching; I had far rather fight than stay in my tent.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall was about to leave the room she made no conversational advances this time, because she did not want to be snubbed in front of Mr. Henfrey when her visitor asked her if she had made any arrangements about his boxes at Bramblehurst.
-- "He don't want no help, he says," he said in answer to his wife's inquiry.
-- "That's what I want to know."
-- I want to know what you been doing t'my chair upstairs, and I want to know how 'tis your room was empty, and how you got in again.
-- Them as stops in this house comes in by the doors that's the rule of the house, and that you didn't do, and what I want to know is how you did come in.
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