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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come into the saloon, it is our usual study, and there you will learn all you want to know about the Nautilus."
-- If we want to sink 3,000 feet, I should keep account of the reduction of bulk under a pressure equal to that of a column of water of a thousand feet.
-- When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part of her total capacity."
-- So, for want of better, I talked to myself; I declaimed in the copper box which covered my head, thereby expending more air in vain words than was perhaps wise.
-- There our diving-dress was taken off, not without some trouble, and, fairly worn out from want of food and sleep, I returned to my room, in great wonder at this surprising excursion at the bottom of the sea.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ursula," said Gudrun, "don't you really want to get married?"
-- "Do you really want children, Ursula?"
-- "Perhaps one doesn't really want them, in one's soul only superficially."
-- She did not want to be too definite.
-- Why had she wanted to submit herself to it, did she still want to submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced countryside?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't want your help,' she snapped; 'I can get them for myself.
-- 'I want you to tell me my way, not to SHOW it: or else to persuade Mr. Heathcliff to give me a guide.
-- 'Let ME go, if you want me to let you in!'
-- You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
-- When Kenneth warned him that his medicines were useless at that stage of the malady, and he needn't put him to further expense by attending her, he retorted, 'I know you need not she's well she does not want any more attendance from you!She never was in a consumption.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's.
-- Is that seamanly behaviour, now, I want to know?
-- What I want to know is this: Supposing that I have here in my pocket some clue to where Flint buried his treasure, will that treasure amount to much?"
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