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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the gipsy's evidence may be taken as true, he ran with cries for help in the direction where help was least likely to be.
-- 'I should say that it was much more likely that it was the son of one of the moorland shepherds taking out his father's dinner.'
-- Is that a place where a shepherd would be likely to take his station?
-- We're not likely to forget him.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you know, prince,' he said, in quite a different tone, 'I do not know you at all, yet, and after all, Elizabetha Proko-fievna would very likely be pleased to have a peep at a man of her own name.
-- 'I confess, I thought Elizabetha Proko-fievna would very likely remember that I had written her a letter.
-- Very likely she never will.
-- Very likely he will be in bed again in a day or two, especially if he lives fast.'
-- It made known that the eldest, Alexandra, would very likely be dis-posed to listen to a proposal.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though we be all of us slain at the ships of the Argives you are not likely to be killed yourself, for you are not steadfast nor courageous.
-- I would remind you of this that you may learn to leave off being so deceitful, and discover how much you are likely to gain by the embraces out of which you have come here to trick me.'
-- Men who respect each other's good opinion are less likely to be killed than those who do not, but in flight there is neither gain nor glory.'
-- The son of Peleus held the shield before him with his strong hand, and he was afraid, for he deemed that Aeneas's spear would go through it quite easily, not reflecting that the god's glorious gifts were little likely to yield before the blows of mortal men; and indeed Aeneas's spear did not pierce the shield, for the layer of gold, gift of the god, stayed the point.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's likely I'll come ashore.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am more likely to give help than to ask it' Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it 'still I should like to know.'
-- Besides, white men who haven't a place to sleep in are more than likely to be thieves, and I've a good deal of Gov-ernment property on my back.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
-- If he possessed the power to arrest any wandering eye when exhibiting the glories of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still more likely to attract attention.
-- Heyward, perceiving that the stubborn adherence of the scout to the cause of his friends the Delawares, or Mohicans, for they were branches of the same numerous people, was likely to prolong a useless discussion, changed the subject.
-- 'That I am not stone, your dead comrade, who fell into the falls, might answer, were the life still in him,' said the provoked young man, using, in his anger, that boastful lan-guage which was most likely to excite the admiration of an Indian.
-- 'Here has the cunning Frenchman been posting a picket directly in our path,' he said; 'red-skins and whites; and we shall be as likely to fall into their midst as to pass them in the fog!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V. Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz has dealt in such terms with the Rev.
-- When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how much he was likely to make out of it.
-- It was likely enough that in the agitation of the moment my note had escaped her memory.
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