My merit, then, is the accident of an accident. But having done nothing meritorious before I was born, surely I ought to begin afterward. I think a man born to wealth ought to doubt his moral title to it, and ought to set to work to prove it--ought to set himself to repair the injustice of fortune by which he profits. Yes, such a man should be a sort of human sunshine, and diffuse blessings all round him. The poor man that encounters him ought to bless the accident. But there, I am not eloquent. You know how much more I mean than I can say."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"You've left me to starve!" cried Will, strangling a sob of anger. "It's not fair! You have no right. The money ought to be mine--I swear it ought!"
"Oh, it ought, ought it?" sneered the old man, with an ugly laugh. At the sound of the laugh, Will shrank back and shivered as if from the stroke of a whip. The spirit of rage worked in his blood like the spirit of drink, and he felt his disordered nerves respond in a sudden frenzy. "It ought to be mine, you devil, and you know it!" he cried. "I do, do I?" retorted Fletcher, still cackling.英文原著 · 《The Deliverance》
Didn't I say so? Of course she ought not. Neither ought she to have suffered her thoughts to stray, in the manner they did, towards Mr. Carlyle. She ought not, but she did. If we all did just what we "ought," this lower proverb touching /fruit defendu/ would go out as a dead letter.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
To justify us in taking the administration of their affairs out of the hands of the East-India Company, on my principles, I must see several conditions. The object affected by the abuse should be great and important. The abuse affecting this great object ought to be a great abuse. It ought to be habitual, and not accidental. It ought to be utterly incurable in the body as it now stands constituted. All this ought to be made as visible to me as the light of the sun, before I should strike off an atom of their charter.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
Every man whose business is description ought to be tolerably conversant with the poets in some language or other, that he may imbibe a poetical spirit and enlarge his stock of ideas. He ought to acquire a habit of comparing and divesting his notions. He ought not to be wholly unacquainted with that part of philosophy which gives him an insight into human nature, and relates to the manners, characters, passions, and affections. He ought to know something concerning the mind, as well as a great deal concerning the body of man.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
"I wouldn't give any man that much satisfaction. I think that is the way it ought to be. A man ought to love a woman more than she loves him. It ought to be enough for him if she lets him give her everything she wants in the world. He ought to serve her like the old knights--give up his whole life to satisfy some whim of hers; and it's her part, if she likes, to be cold and distant. That's my idea of love."英文原著 · 《The Pit》
But there were some things that really ought to have been discussed, some things that I cannot imagine keeping to myself.美剧 · 《Billions》
I was thinking back to our last meal together, wherein you told me I ought never mention the favor I had done you again.美剧 · 《Billions》
But I can advise close friends on what they ought to do with money they've been entrusted with.美剧 · 《Billions》
Which is why I'm wearing this, and why you ought to be.美剧 · 《Billions》