wish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 希望； 但愿； 祝n. 愿望， 希望； [pl.，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So from this time forward Sultan had all that he could wish for.
-- Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, 'I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me you will soon have a daughter.'
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
-- How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glum-dalclitch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me!And I may say with truth, that in the midst of my own misfortunes I could not forbear lamenting my poor nurse, the grief she would suffer for my loss, the displeasure of the queen, and the ruin of her fortune.
-- That in the two kingdoms above mentioned, where, during his resi-dence, he had conversed very much, he observed long life to be the universal desire and wish of mankind.
-- 'I understand you well,' said my master: 'it is now very plain, from all you have spoken, that whatever share of reason the Yahoos pretend to, the Houyhnhnms are your masters; I heartily wish our Yahoos would be so trac-table.'
-- I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every travel-ler, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have a great mind to say I wish I hadn't.
-- If he should wish her to remain here a day or two longer, of course she can, ma'am.'
-- 'Of course she can if you wish it, Mr.
-- 'I wish I could collect all the Facts we hear so much about,' said Tom, spitefully setting his teeth, 'and all the Figures, and all the people who found them out: and I wish I could put a thousand barrels of gunpowder under them, and blow them all up together!However, when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have my revenge.'
-- After all the trouble that has been taken with you!After the lectures you have attended, and the experiments you have seen!After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!I wish,' whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, taking a chair, and discharging her strongest point before succumbing under these mere shadows of facts, 'yes, I really do wish that I had never had a family, and then you would have known what it was to do without me!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gretchen and the old cook received the keys of the house; and, scarcely pausing to wish anyone good-by, we started on our adventurous journey into the centre of the earth.
-- "I do not wish to disturb the serenity of any man.
-- How heartily did I wish myself with them!
-- My uncle, who did not wish to appear to have any hesitation about the matter before myself or the guide, at once made up his mind.
-- I did not wish to abandon him at the bottom of that abyss, while, on the other hand, the instinct of preservation told me to fly.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Renoir said he painted his pictures with his penis...he did too, lovely pictures!I wish I did something with mine.
-- I wish I'd kept my ten shillings!What's she going to give me, I should like to know?
-- I DO wish you'd come.'
-- 'But I won't go if you don't wish it,' she said, clinging to him.
-- 'I wish you wouldn't cavil, Hilda.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May I ask you in no impertinent curiosity, but because I have had so much pleasure in your society, may never in this labyrinth of a world exchange a quiet word with you again, and wish to preserve an accurate remembrance of you and yours may I ask you, if I have not gathered from your good wife that you have had other children?'
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