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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floor was covered with fine sand, and taking all in all they were well pleased with it for want of a better.
-- With him they could want nothing; with him they would never despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tell you again that I want to see my sister.'
-- I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.
-- I want to see her; and I will.'
-- I would leave her not with resources which could be easily spent or squandered away, but with what would place her beyond the reach of want for ever.
-- But sit where you are, if you please, in case I want you.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You want Maslova?"
-- "What do you want here?"
-- "You want some wine--that's what you want."
-- If any one had taken pity on this boy, Nekhludoff thought while looking at the sickly, frightened face of the boy, before want had driven him from the village to the city, and relieved that want, or, when, after twelve hours' work in the factory, he was visiting inns with grown-up comrades, some one had told him, "Don't go, Vania; it is bad," the boy would not have gone, or got drunk, and the burglary would never have occurred.
-- "I am a juryman, my name is Nekhludoff, and I want to see the prisoner Maslova," he said, resolutely and quickly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: "Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion.
-- I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack."
-- "I want something to eat.
-- I want to tell it.
-- 'If you want your machine again you must leave that sphinx alone.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!I do so wish I could see that bit!I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire.
-- If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'
-- Besides, I do so want to get into the Third Square!'
-- 'And then there's the Butterfly,' Alice went on, after she had taken a good look at the insect with its head on fire, and had thought to herself, 'I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!'
-- The Gnat amused itself meanwhile by humming round and round her head: at last it settled again and remarked, 'I suppose you don't want to lose your name?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first we thought it was the want of company of his own kind that made him ask this question, but at last we began to see he was desirous to avoid them.
-- "I want none of your money," said I, "but what you owe my father.
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