might是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 力量, 强权, 势力，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
-- To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
-- The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
-- 'There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew.
-- 'But you might know it,' observed the gentleman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that vis-ibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do.
-- In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a rob-ber or in league with robbers.
-- Jerry, left alone in the mist and darkness, dismounted meanwhile, not only to ease his spent horse, but to wipe the mud from his face, and shake the wet out of his hat-brim, which might be capable of holding about half a gallon.
-- It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.
-- His breakfast-table was drawn before the fire, and as he sat, with its light shining on him, waiting for the meal, he sat so still, that he might have been sitting for his portrait.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!This stuff must be woven for me immediately.'
-- And he caused large sums of Andersen's Fairy Talesmoney to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
-- All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ig-norant, their neighbors might prove to be.
-- The old minister listened -attentively to their words, in order that he might repeat them to the Emperor; and then the knaves asked for more silk and gold, saying that it was necessary to complete what they had begun.
-- The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.
-- said Matvey, showing by this response that he, like his master, realized the significance of this arrival--that is, that Anna Arkadyevna, the sister he was so fond of, might bring about a reconciliation between husband and wife.
-- And the idea that he might be let on by his interests, that he might seek a reconciliation with his wife on account of the sale of the forest--that idea hurt him.
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- The petitioner, the widow of a staff captain Kalinin, came with a request impossible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed advice as to how and to whom to apply, and even wrote her, in his large, sprawling, good and legible hand, a confident and fluent little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People said that he resembled Byron at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
-- on the sum that might be recovered.
-- He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
-- The clock struck seven, and the party offered to suspend the game so that Mr. Fogg might make his preparations for departure.
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