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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scientific reasons were the only ones likely to influence my uncle.
-- "But, my dear sir, is not this paper very likely to be a hoax?"
-- Very likely I may find there some manuscripts from the hand of Saknussemm.
-- Though not very large, it appeared not likely to be filled for centuries.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It merely went to the effect that as they had all been thrown together by chance, and had all preserved a good understanding together, and were now about to disperse, and were not likely ever to find themselves all together again, what could they do better than bid farewell to one another, and give one another good-speed in a simultaneous glass of cool champagne all round the table?
-- Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done.
-- 'Supposing she had, say a brother, say a father, say a husband, who would be likely to make a grab at that property when she came into it how about that?'
-- This dashing young Barnacle, in a word, was likely to become a statesman, and to make a figure.
-- 'Indeed I have little doubt,' said Flora, running on with astonishing speed, and pointing her conversation with nothing but commas, and very few of them, 'that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in business and naturally desirous to settle and extend your connection nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese lady should accept you and think herself very well off too, I only hope she's not a Pagodian dissenter.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You think I'm likely to do the same?
-- When people do one mean thing they are very likely to do another,' observed Jo in a disgusted tone.
-- Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, 'I don't be-lieve it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three better, more likely sea-officers and men, each in his own different way, could not readily be found, and they were every one of them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man.
-- The one remaining hook, upon which the entire strain now depended, seemed every instant to be on the point of giving way; an event still more likely from the violent motions of the head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's very likely it will be troublesome.
-- 'And it's a great deal better, Work'us, that she died when she did, or else she'd have been hard labouring in Bridewell, or transported, or hung; which is more likely than either, isn't it?'
-- It was not until he was left alone in the silence and stillness of the gloomy workshop of the undertaker, that Oliver gave way to the feelings which the day's treatment may be supposed likely to have awakened in a mere child.
-- Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.
-- It was as light as it was likely to be, till night came on again, and the busy morning of half the London population had begun.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Design!Nonsense, how can you talk so!But it is very likely that he MAY fall in love with one of them, and there-fore you must visit him as soon as he comes.'
-- It was generally evident whenever they met, that he DID admire her and to HER it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
-- 'No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night.'
-- 'Oh!yes it would be much better to wait till Jane was well, and by that time most likely Captain Carter would be at Meryton again.
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