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ought

/awt/US // ɔt //UK // (ɔːt) //

应该,应当,应,理应如此

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : : Every citizen ought to help.
    • : : He ought to be punished. You ought to be ashamed.
    • : : You ought to be home early. We ought to bring her some flowers.
    • : : That ought to be our train now.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : duty or obligation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inobligation
as inhave

Examples

  • There was a string, dating back to the late oughts, when I rarely missed one.

  • When companies do bad things they ought to be held accountable for them.

  • We ought to seek Chinese cooperation in a response to this North Korean act of aggression.

  • Then when we arrive at his flat in Shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder.

  • The officers explained that those Sikhs had been lynched to death and that Singh ought to anticipate the same fate for himself.

  • “Novelist good for nothing else,” said Samuel Beckett, and that ought to be taken as a compliment.

  • And is this a mere fantastic talk, or is this a thing that could be done and that ought to be done?

  • I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.

  • I really ought to visit my California estates, and I have always wanted to see that part of America.

  • But she told Grandfather Mole that it was all right—that she knew a person of his age ought not to go without his breakfast.