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should
- IPA[ʃʊd]
英式
- used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions；indicating a desirable or expected state
- 釋義
modal
- 1. used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions he should have been careful I think we should trust our people more
- ▪ indicating a desirable or expected state by now pupils should be able to read with a large degree of independence
- ▪ used to give or ask advice or suggestions you should go back to bed what should I wear?
- ▪ used to give advice I should hold out if I were you
- 2. used to indicate what is probable £348 m should be enough to buy him out the bus should arrive in a few minutes
- 3. formal (expressing the conditional mood) referring to a possible event or situation if you should change your mind, I'll be at the hotel should anyone arrive late, admission is likely to be refused
- ▪ (in the first person) indicating the consequence of an imagined event if I were to obey my first impulse, I should spend my days writing letters
- 4. used in a clause with ‘that’ after a main clause describing feelings it is astonishing that we should find violence here
- 5. used in a clause with ‘that’ expressing purpose in order that training should be effective it must be planned systematically
- 6. (in the first person) expressing a polite request or acceptance I should like some more, if I may we should be grateful for your advice
- 7. (in the first person) expressing a conjecture or hope he'll have a sore head, I should imagine ‘It won't happen again.’ ‘I should hope not.’
- 8. used to emphasize to a listener how striking an event is or was you should have seen Marge's face
- ▪ emphasizing how surprising an event was I was in this shop when who should I see across the street but Tobias
