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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might have kept his doubts to himself, revolving them slowly as he dissected out the nerves of the mangled upper arm, but Ira Hinkley would not let him alone.
-- "Mart, my son," he roared, "do you realize that in this, what some might call a sordid task, we are learning things that will enable us to heal the bodies and comfort the souls of countless lost unhappy folks?"
-- He knew that Duer was a tricky chemist, who neatly and swiftly completed the experiments demanded by the course and never ventured on original experiments which, leading him into a confused land of wondering, might bring him to glory or disaster.
-- There was a certain fondness for him in Digamma Pi; Fatty was soft, Fatty was superstitious, Fatty was an imbecile, yet they had for him the annoyed affection they might have had for a second-hand motor or a muddy dog.
-- They poured more coffee into him and (on the advice of Clif Clawson, who wasn't exactly sure what the effect might be but who was willing to learn) they fed him a potassium bromide tablet.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I knew it,' he muttered in confusion, 'I thought so!That's the worst of all!Why, a stupid thing like this, the most trivial detail might spoil the whole plan.
-- He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated wretchedness and gloomy excitement that he longed to rest, if only for a moment, in some other world, whatever it might be; and, in spite of the filthiness of the surroundings, he was glad now to stay in the tavern.
-- It was insufferably close, and so heavy with the fumes of spirits that five min-utes in such an atmosphere might well make a man drunk.
-- It is true that he is forty-five years old, but he is of a fairly prepossessing appearance and might still be thought attractive by women, and he is altogether a very re-spectable and presentable man, only he seems a little morose and somewhat conceited.
-- So, Rodya dear, he may be of the greatest use to you, in every way indeed, and Dounia and I have agreed that from this very day you could definitely en-ter upon your career and might consider that your future is marked out and assured for you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He might have done worse,' said my aunt.
-- He might have offered him one gently, or half a one, or afragment of one; for he spoke as slowly as he walked; but hewouldn't have been rude to him, and he couldn't have been quickwith him, for any earthly consideration.
-- I might have a misgiving that I am 'meandering' in stopping to saythis, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions,in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appearfrom anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child ofclose observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of mychildhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.
-- Of the geese outsidethe side-gate who come waddling after me with their long necksstretched out when I go that way, I dream at night, as a manenvironed by wild beasts might dream of lions.
-- I feel that if I looked at him any longer, I might betempted to say something out loud; and what would become of methen?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston is such a good-humoured, pleasant, excellent man, that he thoroughly deserves a good wife; and you would not have had Miss Taylor live with us for ever, and bear all my odd humours, when she might have a house of her own?'
-- If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encourage-ments, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.
-- She felt herself a most for-tunate woman; and she had lived long enough to know how fortunate she might well be thought, where the only regret was for a partial separation from friends whose friendship for her had never cooled, and who could ill bear to part with her.
-- She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her compan-ionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little dif-ficulties and privations.
-- Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; and upon being applied to, he could not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias of inclination) that wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many perhaps with most people, unless taken mod-erately.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- In his face one might notice that many of the hues and curves of youth had tarried on to manhood: there even remained in his remoter crannies some relics of the boy.
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