ought/should.导航词义：应该

1. ought:modal v. 应该，应当.无时态和人称变化，后接动词不定式，表示义务、责任、建议等，侧重反映客观情况。

I ought to go home now. I must prepare dinner for my children.

我得回家了，我必须给孩子们做饭。

Such things ought not to be allowed.

这种事情不该允许。

You ought to finish it on time.

你应该按时完成它。

2. should:modal v. 应该.侧重自己的主观看法。在表示义务、责任时，语气比 ought 稍弱；在表示建议而非义务时，比 ought 更常用。

You should have a mind of your own.

你应该有自己的主见。

He should go and see his father.

他应该去看看父亲。

试比较：

I ought to go.

我得走了。（侧重客观原因）

I should go.

我应该走了。（侧重主观意愿）

We ought to help her.

我们应该帮助她。（指在道义上有责任这样做）

We should help her.

我们该帮她。（帮助她是明智之举，但并非指在道义上必须这样做）

全部

1·You ought to give up smoking.

你应该戒烟。《牛津词典》

2·He ought to resign, I think.

我看他应该辞职。《牛津词典》

3·I ought to give up smoking.

我应该戒烟。《牛津词典》

4·You ought to stop smoking.

你应当戒烟。《牛津词典》

5·Nurses ought to earn more.

护士的薪资应该多一点。《牛津词典》

6·You ought to ask a lawyer's advice.

你应该去问问律师的意见。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·There ought to be a law against it!

应该有法律来防止这种事！《牛津词典》

8·You ought to meet her—she's a hoot!

你应该见见她—她笑料十足！《牛津词典》

9·Such things ought not to be allowed.

这种事应该禁止。《牛津词典》

10·You ought to have been more careful.

你本应该更小心一点的。《牛津词典》

应该

1·You ought to ask a lawyer's advice.

你应该去问问律师的意见。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·There ought to be a law against it!

应该有法律来防止这种事！《牛津词典》

3·Such things ought not to be allowed.

这种事应该禁止。《牛津词典》

4·She's crazy—she ought to be locked up.

她疯了，应该把她关起来。《牛津词典》

5·I really ought to be getting back now.

现在我真应该回去了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

应当

1·Your claim ought to succeed, in which case the damages will be substantial.

你的索赔应当能成功，假如这样的话，损害赔偿金将会相当可观。《牛津词典》

2·You ought to be ashamed of your foolish behavior.

你应当为你的愚蠢行为感到羞耻。

3·You ought to be ashamed of your foolish behaviour.

你应当为自己的愚蠢行为而感到羞耻。《新英汉大辞典》

4·You ought to kick back at such malicious slander.

你应当对这种恶意诽谤进行反击。

5·We ought to regulate our daily life.

我们应当使日常生活规律化。

本应

1·These and other such measures ought to have been put into effect in 1985.

这些及其他此类措施本应于1985年付诸实施。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought.

在地铁或公共汽车上，一个身强力壮的男学生在冲向最后一个座位时，用胳膊肘把老妇人推到一边，这算不了什么，更不用说他本应站起来给她让座了。

3·As a small, open economy dependent on banking, beach tourism and beef exports, Uruguay ought to be more exposed to the world recession than Argentina, with its large domestic market.

与阿根廷具有巨大的国内市场相比，作为一个依靠银行业、海滨旅游业和牛肉出口业的开放型的较小规模的经济体，乌拉圭本应受到世界经济衰退的更大打击。

4·His predecessor, Charles Clarke, was forced to resign in May after admitting that some 1,000 foreign prisoners who ought to have been considered for deportation had been freed.

今年5月，他的前任查尔斯·克拉克在承认释放了大约1000名本应考虑驱逐出境的外籍犯人之后被迫辞职。

5·He ought to have been inoculated.

他本应先打预防针的。

责任

1·We ought to help them when they are in trouble.

当他们有麻烦时，我们有责任帮助他们。

2·So, while we take advantage of the opportunities that the cities offer us, we ought to devote our intelligence and wisdom to bettering out cities.

所以，我们在利用城市给我们带来便利的同时，有责任为城市条件的改善贡献自己的才智。

3·So, while we take advantage of the opportunities that the cities offer us, we ought to devote our intelligence and wisdom to bettering our cities.

所以，我们在利用城市给我们带来便利的同时，有责任为城市条件的改善贡献自己的才智。

大概

1·If he started at seven, he ought to be here now.

假如他在七点出发的话，现在大概到这儿了。

(1)ought to do sth应该；应该做某事

(1)ought to know better应该懂得多一些