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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Orchid had the flapper's curiosity as to what a man was likely to do, but she was satisfied by exceedingly small thrills.
-- While Leora sat on the edge of her chair in the manner of one likely to be sent home, and Mrs. Tredgold sat forward like a hostess, Tredgold flourished the cocktail-shaker and performed courtesies: "How long you been here now, Doctor?"
-- V Martin realized that he was likely to be the next Director of the Department.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here, and he had most 22 Crime and Punishment likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern.
-- So that I may very likely be able to send to you not twenty-five, but thir-ty roubles.
-- Most likely it was partly like that, from mother's letter it's evident: he struck her as rude a little and mother in her sim-plicity took her observations to Dounia.
-- The luggage will cost less than their fares and very likely go for nothing.
-- It's more likely she has been given drink and deceived somewhere 芒聙娄 for the first time 芒聙娄 you understand?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, I wonder with a sudden fear whether it is likely that ourgood old clergyman can be wrong, and Mr. and Miss Murdstoneright, and that all the angels in heaven can be destroying angels.
-- If I found out the nearestproper authorities, and offered myself to go for a soldier, or asailor, I was such a little fellow that it was most likely theywouldn't take me in.
-- In a schoolcarried on by sheer cruelty, whether it is presided over by a dunceor not, there is not likely to be much learnt.
-- 'No, thatain't likely at all- I wonder, if she was to die, whether she'd leaveDavy anything?'
-- It was a likely place to sell a jacket in: for the dealers in second-hand clothes were numerous, and were, generally speaking, on thelook-out for customers at their shop-doors.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by inter-ference.'
-- Oh yes!It is not likely you should ever have observed him; but he knows you very well indeed I mean by sight.'
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
-- At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very likely ever to have any that can avail her.
-- Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part vistas of probable triumphs the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.
-- Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
-- "Well, we are not likely to know more to-night, at any rate," said Bathsheba.
-- No; it's more likely to fall open.
-- It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though his manners were somewhat boorish, he was always as neat as a new pin and he took his snuff in a lordly way, like a man who knows that his snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy, so that when Mme.
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