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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he stood on the dark little landing, wondering what it might be that he had seen.
-- "This stror, sir, if I might make so bold as to remark " "Don't.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- I think Montgomery might have left him then, seeing the brute was drunk; but he only turned a shade paler, and fol-lowed the captain to the bulwarks.
-- You had the need, and I had the knowl-edge; and I injected and fed you much as I might have collected a specimen.
-- I felt I had him at a disadvan-tage, had caught him in the mood of indiscretion; and to tell the truth I was not curious to learn what might have driven a young medical student out of London.
-- He might perhaps have purchased his social peace by abandoning his investi-gations; but he apparently preferred the latter, as most men would who have once fallen under the overmastering spell of research.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How beautiful are the noble children!How large are their eyes!And so young too!Indeed, indeed, I might have re-membered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.'
-- I might have saved myself the message.'
-- Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.
-- Mowgli would laugh and answer: 'I have the Pack and I have thee; and Baloo, though he is so lazy, might strike a blow or two for my sake.
-- 'Then in that case, thou and I together, old hunter, might make him see reason.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- The rude path, which originally formed their line of com-munication, had been widened for the passage of wagons; so that the distance which had been traveled by the son of the forest in two hours, might easily be effected by a de-tachment of troops, with their necessary baggage, between the rising and setting of a summer sun.
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- From beneath the flap of an enormous pocket of a soiled vest of embossed silk, heavily ornamented with tarnished silver lace, projected an instrument, which, from being seen in such martial company, might have been easily mis-taken for some mischievous and unknown implement of war.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Robert Strickland has "interpreted" all the facts in his father's life which a dutiful son might find it inconvenient to remember must surely lead him in the fullness of time to the highest dignities of the Church.
-- Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn't for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your "stuff."
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