I ought not to have asked you a thing like that. I'm sorry.

我本不应该问你这样一件事。对不起。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Such things ought not to be allowed.

这种事应该禁止。

《牛津词典》

I ought not to tell you but I will, since you're in the family, so to speak.

我不该告诉你，但我会告诉你，因为说来你也是这个家庭的一员。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"The South asks for justice, simple justice, and less she ought not to take.

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Kant says people ought to be an end and not a means for us; we ought to understand them on their terms."

康德说人们应该使我们的终点，而不是途径;,我们应该从他们的角度来理解他们“

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The possibilities of freedom must always, in their view, be balanced with the world as it as--not as it ought to be.

在他们看来,自由的存在可能性,必须与现实相结合,而不是理所当然的

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Anything that could be offensive to some people ought not to be on public property.

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There really ought not to be any outrage over government over-reaching in this case.

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In that sense, therefore, East Timor's independence ought not to be a precedent for anything.

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