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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, though the sailors' vengeance was satisfied, their curiosity was not; they knew the brute had no very delicate appetite, and the contents of his stomach might be worth investigation.
-- However, the only way to know was to examine the bottle, and Glenarvan set to work without further delay, so carefully and minutely, that he might have been taken for a coroner making an inquest.
-- Look at those petrifactions all over it, these different substances almost turned to mineral, we might say, through the action of the salt water!This waif had been tossing about in the ocean a long time before the shark swallowed it."
-- Then we might have found out the road they had come by taking the exact latitude and longitude, and studying the atmospheric and submarine currents; but with such a postman as a shark, that goes against wind and tide, there's no clew whatever to the starting-point."
-- "If your Lordship would simply break off the neck, I think we might easily withdraw the papers," suggested John Mangles.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think that we might venture a little farther than this.
-- This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.
-- Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terri-ble oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
-- At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man, for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the Hall and her father's farm.
-- Then, as it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil, for, rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the compa-ny that he would that very night render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the wench.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical it might almost be called a malicious smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
-- I thought I might as well jump into the Neva at once without going home first; but it struck me that I wouldn't, after all, and I went home feeling like one of the damned.'
-- Of course they were only Epanchins, but their mother's family was noble; they might expect considerable fortunes; their father had hopes of attaining to very high rank indeed in his country's service-all of which was satis-factory.
-- Don't you think you might go in yourself now, without waiting for the secretary to come out?'
-- Fool the prince might be, still, the gen-eral's servant felt that it was not correct for him to continue to converse thus with a visitor, in spite of the fact that the prince pleased him somehow.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, 'Mother,' he cried, 'you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glori-ous.
-- I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.
-- The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day to Jove and to the other immortals, and Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly; so they called them and the people gathered thereon.
-- Atreus, when he died, left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to be borne by Agamemnon, that he might be lord of all Argos and of the isles.
-- The rest now took their seats and kept to their own sever-al places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in author-ity, who cared not what he said, so that he might set the Achaeans in a laugh.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice a curious listener might have heard him at the coals, and for the space of five minutes he was audible pacing the room.
-- "And if I might make so bold as to ask " "That I think, is all," said the stranger, with that quietly irresistible air of finality he could assume at will.
-- There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw glass bottles.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as his stomach kept grumbling more than ever and he had nothing to quiet it with, he thought of going out for a walk to the near-by village, in the hope of finding some charitable person who might give him a bit of bread.
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