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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them; more probably she felt none, for in gaining her a passage he had lost her her point, and we know how women take a favour of that kind.
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- The house might have been built on purpose for its present uses.
-- It might be possible to describe it if some one should discover a process by which to distil from the atmosphere all the nauseating elements with which it is charged by the 莽卢卢 3 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 catarrhal exhalations of every individual lodger, young or old.
-- Such prices as these are confined to the Faubourg Saint-Marcel and the district between La Bourbe and the Salpetriere; and, as might be expected, poverty, more or less apparent, weighed upon them all, Mme.
-- Her shawl, with its scanty, draggled fringe, might have covered a skeleton, so meagre and angular was the form beneath it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.
-- I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
-- Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will ap-pear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't make anything of it But it just looks to me like she might of.
-- And Stuart might have made the match, but Brent had not been satisfied.
-- But that might not be a bad idea either."
-- The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and theirneighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went offin the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and hishated troops with their orange cockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.
-- James and Andrew might have some advice to offer on this subject of marriage, and there might be daughtersamong their old friends who would both meet his requirements and find him acceptable as a husband.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew Mrs. Joe's housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.
-- I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.
-- "You might ha' done worse."
-- I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
-- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- At last he could go no farther, for the stone tired him 16 Grimms' Fairy Talessadly: and he dragged himself to the side of a river, that he might take a drink of water, and rest a while.
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