ought to

ought to

美 ['ɔ:t tə] 　英 ['ɔ:t tə]

• modalv.应该；应当；（表示期望或可能发生的事）应该；（表示劝告或建议）应该
• v.应该
• 网络理应；应然；应该要

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例句

If he has any doubt as to which side he ought to be on, he need only ask that bellwether of public opinion, his old friend Oprah Winfrey.

如果他对支持哪一方有任何疑虑的话，他只需要问问民意代表，他的老朋友OprahWinfrey。

She was in charge at the time and, if she did not know, she ought to have done.

她当时是《世界新闻报》的掌门人，如果她不知道，那真是太不应该了。

And the healthy stomach ought to be with respect to all food just as the mill with respect to all things which it is formed to grind.

健全的胃应当像磨子对待所有它天生要磨的东西一样对待所有食物。

She ought to have been the slimmest of the bunch: that she remained overweight was a frustration to her, and a mystery to all of us.

她应该是亭亭玉立身材最突出的一个：然而留给她的挫折则是超重，也给我们留下了疑惑。

"well, " he said, " I should think a man's legs ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground. "

“嗯。”他说，“我认为一个人的腿是要能使他的身体够着地就行了。”

The engagement which ought to have kept her from joining in the former attempt would make it impossible for her to accompany them now.

说她十分抱歉不能去。她有约在先，上次就不该去，这次更不能奉陪了。

we ought to teach our young girls to have self respect here. there is a good bunch of them who do not know the meaning of the word.

我们应该教育我们的年轻女孩要有自尊。她们当中有很多人不知道这个词的含义。

It was a pity that I couldn't attend the ceremony because I ought to leave on the next morning.

可惜我第二天一早便要离开，错过了这场盛会，是我此行最大的遗憾。

If you think of others that you feel ought to be here, mention them in the comments.

如果你认为其他的也应该列在这，那就在评论中指出来。

By way of showing us what a nude ought to be like he hauls out a huge canvas which he had recently completed.

为了给我们讲解裸体画该是怎样的，他拖出一幅巨大的油画，这是他才画完的。

and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better.

要是他得到了他应当得到的那份财产，那我就会觉得你这门亲事再好也没有了。

In fact, however, trauma is only a small part of a wide array of psychosocial issues that ought to be addressed.

而实际上，心理创伤只是一系列需要解决的繁杂的社会心理问题中的很小一部分。

The blame may lie where it ought to lie, and nowhere else, for I wash my hands of every part of it.

那罪过可以由该受罚的人去担当，不要加在别人身上，我对于这事不再过问了。

The polonium itself, with its rarity and trail of irradiated locations (see article) ought to be a telling clue.

由于钋本身稀有且所过之处留下的放射可被追踪（另见他文），应该能成为发掘信息的线索。

I knew she had strict sleeping habits, but I thought she ought to be able to give up some of this strictness.

我知道她对她的睡眠习惯很执着，但是我认为她必须可以放弃一些她执着的东西。

But even those of us long calloused by life within the Beltway ought to be able to see that we've got a problem.

即便如我们这些常年生活在环路里的人，也应当有能力看到这些问题。

You ought to be well up in children's diseases as you have studied them for eight years.

你对儿科疾病研究已有8年，按理应该很精通了。

The cornfield across the road does not seem nearly so tall or so green as it ought to be, given the time of year, but I am not discouraged.

道路的对面的玉米田几乎并不像一年时间里它应该长成的高大和碧绿，可是但我并不为此而感到气馁。

She glimpsed something of what life ought to be about.

她开始领悟到人生应该是怎么回事。

She put it back, and proceeded to get dinner early and in good time. Her little bravado made her feel as if she ought to make amends.

她把钱放回钱包，就去早早准备晚饭，以便按时开饭。她这样闹了一下之后，觉得自己似乎应该作些补偿。

You ought to let him cover the whole balance of the debt, Hayley, if you had any conscience.

你应该让他抵销我的全部债务才对，海利，要是你有良心的话，一定会的。

You ought to be ashamed to lie there and sleep so, and such an awful storm going on.

你居然躺在那儿，睡得那么酣，也该知道害羞呀，外面刮风下雨那么凶。

When the minister is out of spirits, the opposition ought to be joyous.

当部长垂头丧气的时候，反对派应该欢喜才是。

I ought to begin to think of packing it in as a journalist.

我应该开始考虑结束记者生活了。

The place was regular and balanced, as a gentleman's home ought to be.

这所建筑物方正对称，绅士宅第本该如此。

We ought to be able to manage it between us.

我们齐心协力应该能把这事办妥。

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

如果一个女人吃不准要不要接受一个男人的爱，那她势必应该拒绝。

You ought to use a little imagination about clothes-encourage certain aspects of your character.

在穿衣服方面，你应该使用一点想象力--来突出你的个性。

The boy has reached an adult age and ought to be earning his own living.

这孩子已经（到了）成年，应该自食其力了。

You ought to have wished for a pretty little cottage.

你该要一所漂亮的小村舍。

Only Himmler said incidentally that the war ought to be finished by the beginning of October.

只有希姆莱偶然说过，战争应该在10月初结束。

Young warrior ought to ask young girl; no make young girl speak first. Mingo girls are too shame for that.

年青的战士应当向年轻的姑娘求爱，不能让年轻的姑娘先开口，明哥姑娘也不好意思这样做的。

"Those remarks ought to be printed" , he said with a cold laugh, "and recommended to all tutors" .

“那些话应该印出来，”他带着冷笑说，“而且推荐给所有的教师。”

"I ought to have done you the common justice to explain myself, " she said, repeating my own words.

“我应该好好地亲口说破，”她学着我的话说。

She used to tell me that she thought I ought to expect some gratifications from him for my company.

她常对我说我应该从他那里得到一些好处，做为我陪伴他的报酬。

The blame may lie where it ought to lie, and nowhere else, for I wash my hands of every part of it.

那罪过可以由该受罚的人去担当，不要加在别人身上，我对于这事不再过问了。

You ought to be well up in children's diseases as you have studied them for eight years.

你对儿科疾病研究已有8年，按理应该很精通了。

"Yessuh, " said Bigger, feeling that this ought to place him in the light of a helpless bewildered man.

“是的，先生，”别格说，觉得这样一来，就能让自己看上去象个无依无靠、无所适从的人了。

She is one of the owners of these curiosities and ought to see them opened and handled.

那么现在这些东西也有她一份，她应该来看着我们开箱子和清点里面的东西。

"I ought to stay, " he said. "You see I'm afraid there's some sort of misunderstanding" .

“我得留下，”他说，“你知道，我担心发生了差错。”

Charles, if you think Bertha's position excuses her blasphemies, then I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

查尔斯，如果你认为伯莎的处境可以开脱她的渎神之罪，那么你应该为自己感到羞耻。

Her thought, when he first broached this, was that she ought to make some demonstration of astonishment or wrath.

她在想，当他刚说出来的时候，应该有些震惊或忿怒的表示。

He felt that he ought to rebuke the lady for presuming so to talk to a gentleman and a clergyman many years her senior.

他觉得一个女人对一位比她年长许多的有身份的先生和教士这么放肆地讲话，他实在应该斥责她。

"You speak as if I ought to marry the first man who came along. "

“你这口气倒象我碰上谁就该和谁结婚似的。”

He would not make up his mind whether he ought to rush things or let them take their time.

他是应该加紧进攻呢，还是从容不迫地一步步进来，他还拿不定主意。

He thought he ought to return to Washington to discuss our policy in the face of various predictable contingencies.

他认为他应该回到华盛顿去商讨一下在可以预见的种种紧急事件面前，我们应该采取什么政策。

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed, when it cannot be overcome.

缺乏信仰是一种缺点，不能克服时应加以掩盖。

I'm doubtful (as to) what I ought to say.

我拿不准该说些什么。

She's said to be very beautiful by people she ought to know.

她可是个绝代佳人，所有认识她的人都这么说。

Job told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself.

乔布告诉他，说他该为自己感到可耻。

IT REMAINS now to see what ought to be the rules of conduct for a prince towards subject and friends.

现在它仍然看到什么应该，是对主体和朋友的王子的行为规则。

Joan: Gee, I hadn't thought of that. Now, I suppose I ought to try to get something in business line, since that's my major in college.

琼：唔，这个我从未想到过。现在我认为我应当设法从商才对，因为在大学我是专门学商的。

"You ought to try it, " she said to Phyl, as she did every visit.

“你该试试”，她对菲儿说，每次菲儿来时她总是这么说。

This massive amount of repetition of "generation" in the column by Mr. Safire ought to have already driven home the point.

在萨菲尔先生的专栏里大量重复使用“一代人”这个词应该已经揭示出了其主要观点。

I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression.

我认为这是一个错误，原因很简单，我不相信我们的美利坚合众国会参与侵略。

According to what he said, he ought to be here now.

按他所说的，他现在应该到了。

Would it not be best to let Cyrus Harding judge of what he ought to do, and to warn him, at least, of the danger which threatened him?

要是能让赛勒斯·史密斯去考虑应该怎么办，至少让他知道可能遇到的危险，那样不是更好吗？

He said officials ought to consider the fact that demonstrations also take place in very stable, well-off countries.

何兵认为，政府人员应该深刻认识到这样一个事实：即使是在高度稳定和发达的国家，和平示威也会经常发生。

For large-medium scale, special or complex installation projects, construction designs or construction schemes ought to be complied as well.

对大中型、特殊的或复杂的安装工程尚应编制施工组织设计或施工方案。

not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off.

本来衣橱后壁只有几英寸远，但这盏灯看上去却在老远老远的地方。

I'm afraid I don't have the guts to go up to the boss and tell him what I ought to.

我想我没有胆量去找老板并告诉他我该说的话。

The United States and China are so economically intertwined, the functionalists argue, that they ought to be strategic partners as well.

他们强调，美国和中国经济上互相依赖，理应成为战略伙伴。

She failed one of the exam papers, but we ought to make allowance for the fact that she was ill.

她有一门不及格，但我们必须考虑到她当时有病。

So it seems like we ought to tell them that socioeconomic wealth is not the only, or even the most important, metric of personal happiness.

因此似乎我们应该告诉他们，社会经济财富并不是唯一，甚至不是最重要的个人幸福的度量标准。

He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.

彼得回来了，眼睛里露出贪求的神情，这本来是应该使温迪感到惊骇的，可是她并没有惊骇。

It is only by accident that you see me here. I ought to be in the office.

你只是偶然才见到我的。我应该在办公室。

Now if you think I manage so badly, perhaps you can tell me which of those things we ought to leave out .

要是你以为我不会理家，也许你能告诉我，这些东西里，哪一件可以省下不买。

Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

你们许愿，当向耶和华你们的神还愿。在他四面的人，都当拿贡物献给那可畏的主。

This sounds like a statement of the obvious, but it ought to be seen as one of the biggest surprises among all the shocks of 2008.

这听起来似乎显而易见，但它应该是2008年所有震惊中最令人吃惊的一个。

Peace was all a human being ought to ask for, it seemed to her.

在她看来，世界上只有安宁才是一个人应该追求的一切。

Those who deserve a good character, ought to have the satisfaction of knowing that they have it.

凡是配享有好名声的，应该让他们知道自己享有这种名声而感到快慰。

This is a black business, and ought to be put a stop to, in some way or other.

这是一笔不幸的交易，无论如何必须把它结束。

I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

我认为你应当为自己感到害臊。

Someone ought to go for the police.

得有人去把警察找来。

You're of age now; you ought to be saving for yourself.

你现在长大了，应该给自己积些钱啦。

He ought to have eliminated her weeks ago.

他应该在几个星期前就把她干掉的。

Every student ought to do his part to make steady progress.

每个学生都应尽本分以求平稳的进步。

He ought to have arrived by this.

他此刻应该到了。

He says men ought to look straight at one another.

他说，人们应该直楞楞地彼此看着对方。

You ought to tell him, then.

你总得跟他打个招呼才对呀。