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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very likely they will," said the captain.
-- mentioned, and that most likely is the captain of the shipwrecked vessel."
-- "Most likely the unfortunate men have families who mourn their loss.
-- Lord Glenarvan did not forget that his wife was the daughter of a great traveler, and he thought it likely that she would inherit her father's predilections.
-- Indeed, is it likely that a people with so many names has any actual existence?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doc-tor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials 'C.C.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to her YOUNGER daughters, she could not take upon her to say she could not positive-ly answer but she did not KNOW of any prepossession; her ELDEST daughter, she must just mention she felt it incumbent on her to hint, was likely to be very soon en-gaged.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This moment my former notions of deliverance darted into my thoughts, for now I found I was likely to have a little ship at my command; and my master being gone, I prepared to furnish myself, not for fishing business, but for a voyage; though I knew not, neither did I so much as con-sider, whither I should steer - anywhere to get out of that place was my desire.
-- I now began to consider seriously my condition, and the circumstances I was reduced to; and I drew up the state of my affairs in writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me - for I was likely to have but few heirs - as to deliver my thoughts from daily poring over them, and afflicting my mind; and as my reason began now to mas-ter my despondency, I began to comfort myself as well as I could, and to set the good against the evil, that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I stat-ed very impartially, like debtor and creditor, the comforts I enjoyed against the miseries I suffered, thus:- Evil: I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
-- But as the beasts ruined me before, while my corn was in the blade, so the birds were as likely to ruin me now, when it was in the ear; for, going along by the place to see how it throve, I saw my little crop surrounded with fowls, of I know not how many sorts, who stood, as it were, watching till I should be gone.
-- In the first place, I went among it to see what damage was already done, and found they had spoiled a good deal of it; but that as it was yet too green for them, the loss was not so great but that the remainder was likely to be a good crop if it could be saved.
-- I looked now upon the world as a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no expectations from, and, indeed, no desires about: in a word, I had nothing indeed to do with it, nor was ever likely to have, so I thought it looked, as we may perhaps look upon it hereafter - viz.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not be likely to produce that dejection of mind which frequently attended him.
-- "I rather think you are mistaken, for when I was talking to her yesterday of getting a new grate for the spare bedchamber, she observed that there was no immediate hurry for it, as it was not likely that the room would be wanted for some time."
-- Her heart was devoted to Willoughby, and the fond attachment to Norland, which she brought with her from Sussex, was more likely to be softened than she had thought it possible before, by the charms which his society bestowed on her present home.
-- It is not so very likely he should be distressed in his circumstances NOW, for he is a very prudent man, and to be sure must have cleared the estate by this time.
-- It is not likely that I should now see or hear any thing to change them."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter III WEE QUESTION OF FORTUNE--FOUR-FIFTY A WEEK Once across the river and into the wholesale district, she glanced about her for some likely door at which to apply.
-- She knew nothing of Henderson nor of the methods of applying, but she instinctively felt that this would be a likely place, and accordingly strolled about in that neighbourhood.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together.
-- If you stood four or five foot away and didn't know it was sawed, you wouldn't never notice it; and besides, this was the back of the cabin, and it warn't likely anybody would go fooling around there.
-- He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha'nt us; he said a man that warn't buried was more likely to go a- ha'nting around than one that was planted and com- fortable.
-- After mid-night he'll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all the better for the dark, if he's got one.'
-- 'Watchman your grandmother,' I says; 'there ain't noth-ing to watch but the texas and the pilot- house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pi-lot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?'
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