likely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 很可能的， 有希望的ad. 大概， 多半，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.
-- 'It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,' said the same speaker;' for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it.
-- Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the Spir-it should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that they must have some hidden 84 Sons and Loverspurpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be.
-- 'He isn't likely to take cold without them, I dare say.'
-- 'It's just as likely as not,' said Bob,' one of these days; though there's plenty of time for that, my dear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- 'A likely thing, too!'
-- 'I choose them as real men, of my name Jacques is my name to whom the sight is likely to do good.
-- How the evi-dence that had been warped and wrested from the young lady, whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady so thrown together; with the exception of that reference to George Washington, which was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regarded in any other light than as a monstrous joke.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When one has drunk two good cupfuls of Elder-flower tea, 'tis likely enough one goes into warm climates"; and she tucked him up nicely, least he should take cold.
-- 'The manor-house has most likely fallen to ruin!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And very likely the maids were listening!Horribly vulgar!
-- "Very likely I can't do any good, but I feel--especially at such a moment--but that's another thing-- I feel I could not be at peace."
-- Most likely you've not made a study of spiders and don't know their character; and so it is with me."
-- "Most likely she knows," she thought, noticing the sympathy in Anna's face.
-- "I must say and express fully the following points: first, exposition of the value to be attached to public opinion and to decorum; secondly, exposition of religious significance of marriage; thirdly, if need be, reference to the calamity possibly ensuing to our son; fourthly, reference to the unhappiness likely to result to herself."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEARPhileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.
-- Ralph would not concede that the work of the detectives was likely to be in vain, for he thought that the prize offered would greatly stimulate their zeal and activity.
-- And that is why the search for this thief will be more likely to succeed."
-- Then he offered to carry Sir Francis to Allahabad, which the brigadier gratefully accepted, as one traveller the more would not be likely to fatigue the gigantic beast.
-- Aouda took the keenest interest in his plans, and became impatient at any incident which seemed likely to retard his journey.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Freshmen crouched in a ring about Ira Hinkley in the Digam living- room, while he read out the questions they were most likely to get.
-- There was indeed nothing that was happening or likely to happen in Wheatsylvania which Mr. Tozer did not know and explain.
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