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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Jay, aware that impropriety is the soul of wit, made observations in tones hardly above a whisper that might well have tinged the snowy tablecloth with a rosy hue.
-- Mrs. Strickland might congratulate herself that her party was a success.
-- Mrs. Strickland was taking her family to the coast of Norfolk, so that the children might have the sea and her husband golf.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour, turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom.
-- It contained 50,000 cubic feet of gas, and, thanks to its capacity, it could maintain itself a long time in the air, although it should reach a great altitude or might be thrown into a horizontal position.
-- The balloon, which the wind still drove towards the southwest, had since daybreak gone a considerable distance, which might be reckoned by hundreds of miles, and a tolerably high land had, in fact, appeared in that direction.
-- Might it not possibly thus reach the land?
-- He might have taken for his motto that of William of Orange in the 17th century: "I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though more scantily attired than she might have been she was dressed with perfect neatness, and betrayed no marks of poverty or neglect.
-- There was something in the manner of this reply which caused me to look at the little creature with an involuntary expression of surprise; for I wondered what kind of errand it might be that occasioned her to be prepared for questioning.
-- There was no reason, however, why I should refrain from seeing the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone, and as it was not improbable that if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity, I avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate, and thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were.
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maria Ivanovna said that the girl ought to be taught to work that she might become a useful servant, was exacting, punished, and even beat her when in bad humor.
-- She looked with compassion on the life of drudgery led by these pale, emaciated washerwomen, some of whom showed symptoms of consumption, washing and ironing in a stifling, steam-laden atmosphere with the windows open summer and winter, and she was horrified at the thought that she, too, might be driven to such drudgery.
-- He was, therefore, anxious to end his day's sitting before six o'clock, that he might meet the red-haired Clara Vasilievna.
-- He departed in fear that she would carry out her threat, as anything might be expected from her.
-- The real reason of the postponement was that the prosecutor feared that their trial before an intelligent jury might end in their acquittal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!"
-- "One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato," the Very Young Man thought.
-- "Just think!One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!"
-- What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilisation, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist.
-- What might appear when that hazy curtain was altogether withdrawn?
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- you purred!Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn't been for that nasty Knight, that came wiggling down among my pieces.
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