Possibly
['pɒsɪblɪ] or ['pɑsəbli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) by chance; 'perhaps she will call tomorrow'; 'we may possibly run into them at the concert'; 'it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time'.
(adv.) to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means; 'they can't possibly get here in time for the funeral?'.
奥罗拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.
手打:尤赖亚
同義詞及近義詞:
ad. Perhaps, perchance, PERADVENTURE, mayhap, haply, maybe, it may be, as luck may have it.
編輯:韦德
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe,[See PERHAPS]
編輯:纳内特
例句/造句/用法:
- They began to fear that possibly they had fallen upon the wrong crosses, and that the true cross was not with this number at all. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the afternoon comes Thaka, possibly, to complain that old Mungo has stolen his new wife. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen--it was rather her way to work silently--and surprise him by appearing at his door. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But I don't think you dislike me--and you can't possibly think I want to marry you. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Possibly they mingled to a certain extent. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Mousterian Age implements, and all above it, are those of Neanderthal men or, possibly in the case of the rostro-carinates, of sub-men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- However, this was as good a road as we had found in Palestine, and possibly even the best, and so there was not much grumbling. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She might then possibly hear whether Nicholas had been able to make his application to Mr. Thornton. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- A more satisfactory arrangement to both sides could not possibly have been adopted. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Possibly; I have already arranged my plan of action. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Possibly the first drawings began as children's drawings begin, out of idle scratchings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Possibly you would rather return to Sola and your quarters. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The cave that I faced was not one of those that I had seen from the ground, and which lay much higher, possibly a thousand feet. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- In the few hours that I can possibly allow to elapse before I publish the truth, how is he to be found by us, and only by us? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It was a pleasant reflection, though, that I did not hit him, because his master might just possibly have been a policeman. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue, said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I felt unusually alarmed, and trusting to the lightness of my heels I began to run as fast as I possibly could. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Possibly, if we could prove a bicycle to have been in his possession. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- This illusion, which created so much sensation in London and first known here as Pepper’s Ghost, I will endeavor to explain, and make the working of it as clear as I possibly can to the reader. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Damp, but not wet linen, may possibly give colds; but no one catches cold by bathing, and no clothes can be wetter than water itself. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I am beginning, as well as you could possibly wish, he said. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I alone know that your trumped-up story cannot possibly be true. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He cannot possibly object to being furnished with the opportunity of writing to his comrade three thousand miles away, of drinking pure water, or taking a walk in the park. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I made it a rule to take as much out of myself as I possibly could, in my way of doing everything to which I applied my energies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And what more could I possibly do, if I did believe it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Besides, it is a useless expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:纳内特