require是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 需要； (of) 要求， 命令，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：
-- "M. Aronnax," he said, in rather an imperious tone, "I require you to keep one of the conditions that bind you to me."
-- Flames require the oxygen of the air to feed upon and cannot be developed under water; but streams of lava, having in themselves the principles of their incandescence, can attain a white heat, fight vigorously against the liquid element, and turn it to vapour by contact.
-- "I should say that its working does not require a large crew."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her amiable husband hesitated for a few moments; but, bethinking himself that the letter might require some answer, of which she could be the bearer, closed the window, opened the door, and bade her enter.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
-- It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.
-- But before we came the length of Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require to be known.
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