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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What the devil want beasts for on an island like that?
-- I found myself repeating the captain's question, What did he want with the beasts?
-- Nothing very dreadful, really, to a sane man; but just now, as we don't know you ' 'Decidedly,' said I, 'I should be a fool to take offence at any want of confidence.'
-- He had spoken of his odd want of nerve, and left me to the obvious application.
-- What did he want with me?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even where he was, Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
-- Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speak-ers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: 'This is true; we all say so.'
-- 'I only want to show you all a place where you will be safe.
-- As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
-- I should want to charge with Dick.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- And yet there was neither coarseness nor want of shadowing in a countenance that was exquisitely regular, and dignified and surpassingly beautiful.
-- 'The pale faces make themselves dogs to their women,' muttered the Indian, in his native language, 'and when they want to eat, their warriors must lay aside the tomahawk to feed their laziness.'
-- 'I cannot permit you to accuse Uncas of want of judgment or of skill,' said Duncan; 'he saved my life in the coolest and readiest manner, and he has made a friend who never will require to be reminded of the debt he owes.'
-- 'Ah!you want the flavor that one gets by habit; the time was when I liked it as little as yourself; but I have come to my taste, and I now crave it, as a deer does the licks*.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I want you to talk to Mrs. Strickland," she said.
-- "But why does she want them?"
-- Did she want to see me or did she not?
-- I felt she must be suffering, and I did not want to see a pain which I could not help; but in my heart was a desire, that I felt a little ashamed of, to see how she was taking it.
-- "I particularly want to know."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you want to cross the channel?"
-- Our friends will want something when they come back.
-- "Well, Herbert, now we only want the house."
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