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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances.
-- Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.
-- And in these disastrous times, when the ingenuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might try to work such a formidable engine.
-- Never once did he complain of the length or fatigue of a journey, never make an objection to pack his portmanteau for whatever country it might be, or however far away, whether China or Congo.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstable, her heart was contracted, as if at any minute she might be precipitated to the ground.
-- Shortlands looked across a sloping meadow that might be a park, because of the large, solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at the wooded hill that successfully hid the colliery valley beyond, but did not quite hide the rising smoke.
-- As far as I go they might as well not be there."
-- If one cracked your skull perhaps one might get a spontaneous, passionate woman out of you, with real sensuality.
-- "We might see something of each other I am in London for two or three days," said Gerald.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling to manifestations of mutual kindliness.
-- I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return the sweetest of all imaginable looks.
-- You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!
-- I dine between twelve and one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture along with the house, could not, or would not, comprehend my request that I might be served at five) on mounting the stairs with this lazy intention, and stepping into the room, I saw a servant girl on her knees surrounded by brushes and coal scuttles, and raising an infernal dust as she extinguished the flames with heaps of cinders.
-- The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if any one attempted to assist him in counting his gold.
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:
-- So, to punish it, she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky it was 'and if you're not good directly,' she added, 'I'll put you through into Looking-glass House.
-- So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn't take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes.
-- Oh, what fun it is!How I wish I was one of them!I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.'
-- And an extremely small voice, close to her ear, said, 'You might make a joke on that something about "horse" and "hoarse," you know.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If ever he mentioned it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room.
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
-- "Draw down the blind, Jim," whispered my mother; "they might come and watch outside.
-- 5 The Last of the Blind ManY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
-- There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it a blind man!And I'm to lose my chance for you!I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."
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