【would音标】 英[wʊd] 美[wʊd]
【单词释义】 would是什么意思:
aux.将,将要;想要;愿意;会,打算;大概
v.(will的过去式,用于转述)将,将会
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【would同音词】
wood n.木;木头;木材
【would形近词/近似词】
could aux.能够;可以;可能
should aux. 应该,应当
mould n.铸模;模型 vt.用模子制作;浇铸,塑造
【常用短语】
would rather 宁愿,宁可
【单词例句】
◇ And he thought it over and over,but it would not do, and so he had recourse to magic. "I must give them color, that they maybe seen more plainly," said he.
他想了又想,可是想不出办法。最后他只好使魔术了。"我得把它们染上颜色,好使它们显得清楚!"他说。
---- The Drop of Water
◇ He answered, "It comes from an strange man whom I met in the woods and who promised me great treasures if I would but sign over to him that which stands behind the mill. We can give up the large apple tree for all this."
磨房主回答说:“是我在森林里碰到的一个陌生人给的。他只要我们磨房后的东西作为回报。我们把那棵大苹果树给他不就得了。”
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ Fearing that the girl would die without being baptized, he cried out in anger, "I wish that those boys would all turn into ravens."
他左等右等仍不见他们回来,气得大骂起来,说他们都该变成乌鸦。
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ The seven kids quickly brought the stones, and they put as many as many of them into his stomach as it would hold. Then the mother hurriedly sewed him up again. He was not aware of anything and never once stirred.
七只小山羊飞快地拖来很多石头,拼命地往狼肚子里塞;然后山羊妈妈飞快地把狼肚皮缝好,结果狼一点也没有发觉,它根本都没有动弹。
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off.
当医药费通知单送到她的病房时,她不敢看。因为她确信,治病的费用将会花费她整个余生来偿还。
---- The warmth of a cup of milk
◇ When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks.
当他用自己设计的冰箱运送黄油去市场时,他发现顾客们会走过装在竞争者桶里那些迅速融化的黄油而给他比市价更高的价格买他仍然新鲜坚硬,整齐地切成一磅一块的黄油。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ Lawyer was having a hard time trying to get the papers done, because he felt that after 40 years of marriage at the age of 70, he couldn’t understand why the old couple would still wants a divorce.
律师极其艰难地为他们拟造了一份离婚协议书,因为他觉得,经过婚后40年的相濡以沫现在两个老人都70多岁了,他就是弄不明白为什么这对老夫妇仍然坚持要离婚。
---- Life Together
◇ I would rather just wallow in uncertainty than have things finished.
要知道,我宁愿忍受分与不分的煎熬,也不愿意以这样的方式被宣判“死刑”。
---- A Little Piece of Me
◇ One day the girl left the door to the cage open. The larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cage. The girl was so frightened that he would fly away. As he flew close, she grasped him wildly.
一天,女孩敞开了鸟笼的小门。那只较大较壮的鸟儿飞出了鸟笼。女孩非常害怕鸟儿会飞走。鸟儿飞近时,她死命将它抓住。
---- Best Way to Keep Love is to Give It Wings
◇ As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want a wife?
有天晚上烫衣服时,想着这位仁兄的近况,我突发奇想,也想找个妻子。为什么要找妻子呢?我为什么希望有个老婆呢?
---- I Want a Wife