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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day they went to walk in the wood, that they might be alone; and Jorindel said, 'We must take care that we don't go too near to the fairy's castle.'
-- Soon afterwards, as they were passing by a farmyard, they saw a cock perched upon a gate, and screaming out with all his might and main.
-- So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- They found 17by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
-- But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honour I made them for so I inter-preted my submissive behaviour soon drove out these imaginations.
-- Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their ar-rows upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.
-- However, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as generous: for, supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with 20 Gulliver's Travelstheir spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should cer-tainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith I was tied; af-ter which, as they were not able to make resistance, so they could expect no mercy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind (all supposititious, non-existent persons), but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind no, sir!
-- His short-cropped hair might have been a mere continuation of the sandy freckles on his forehead and face.
-- If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- A space of stunted grass and dry rubbish being between him and the young rabble, he took his eyeglass out of his waistcoat to look for any child he knew by name, and might order off.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a matter of great doubt to me now, to what violent measures my uncle's impetuosity might have led him, had not the clock struck two, and our old French cook called out to let us know that dinner was on the table.
-- But then years might elapse before he would arrive at the correct solution.
-- Perhaps it might only be a gigantic hoax.
-- You might perhaps even follow us to the centre of the earth, there to resolve your eternal doubts."
-- Occasionally he would take it into his head to stop to pick up lumps of rock, and silently pile them up into small heaps, in order that we might not lose our way on our return.
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：
-- He remained strange and bright and cheerful, almost, one might say, chirpy, with his ruddy, healthy-looking face, arid his pale-blue, challenging bright eyes.
-- Between artists and cultured social-ists, Constance and her sister Hilda had had what might be called an aesthetically unconventional upbringing.
-- And however one might sentimentalize it, this sex busi-ness was one of the most ancient, sordid connexions and subjections.
-- His very presence was an affront to a man of society, cloak it as he might in an assumed good manner.
-- Yet when those days of her grand joyful cheerfulness and stimulus were gone, quite gone, and she was depressed and irritable, how Clifford longed for them again!Perhaps if he'd known he might even have wished to get her and Mi-chaelis together again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was waiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation.
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