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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An appeal to the emotions is little likely to be effectual before luncheon.
-- It seemed hardly likely if, as appeared, he had been taking steps for a year to make his desperate plunge.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Herbert attentively examined this land, on which they might perhaps have to live many long years; on which indeed they might even die, should it be out of the usual track of vessels, as was likely to be the case.
-- They had then to find fresh water, and it was not likely that it would be wanting in such a capriciously uneven region.
-- For the present the question was, how to recall him to life, and it appeared likely that rubbing would bring this about; so they set to work with the sailor's jersey.
-- "Most likely he has gone on," said Pencroft.
-- All the consequences likely to result from this incident, notwithstanding its apparent insignificance, immediately took possession of their minds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, as the door of the shop was shut, and it did not appear likely that I should be recognized by those within, if I continued merely to pass up and down before it, I soon conquered this irresolution, and found myself in the Curiosity Dealer's warehouse.
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- It was not likely that I should forget it.
-- It was some two minutes after the time when he reached the spot, which was a considerable distance from his home, but by great good luck the little old gentleman had not yet arrived; at least there was no pony-chaise to be seen, and it was not likely that he had come and gone again in so short a space.
-- As Frederick Trent himself, utterly regardless of his sister, had this object at heart, only second to the hope of gain, it seemed to him the more likely to be Quilp's main principle of action.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All those women who, according to his view, could not be considered as likely to become his wife, were to him not women, but people.
-- If Nekhludoff were clearly conscious of his love for Katiousha; especially if it were sought to persuade him that he could and must not link his fate to that of the girl, he would very likely have decided in his plumb-line mind that there was no reason why he should not marry her, no matter who she was, provided he loved her.
-- "It is quite likely that being drunk he struck her.
-- From all that occurred at the trial and his knowledge of Maslova, Nekhludoff was convinced that she was innocent, and at first was confident that the other jurors would so find her, but when he saw that because of the merchant's bungling defense of Maslova, evidently prompted by his undisguised liking for her, and the foreman's resistance which it caused, but chiefly because of the weariness of the jury, there was likely to be a verdict of guilty, he wished to make objection, but feared to speak in her favor lest his relations toward her should be disclosed.
-- "It is more likely that her coming to the hotel for the money suggested to the servants the idea of stealing it; that they stole it and then threw it all upon her."
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the King, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if he thought that was the most likely place to find one.
-- But this did not seem likely to happen.
-- After a pause, Alice began, 'Well!They were both very unpleasant characters ' Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast.
-- 'It isn't very likely there would be any mice on the horse's back.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring.
-- And when I had pointed out the rock and told him how the captain was likely to return, and how soon, and answered a few other questions, "Ah," said he, "this'll be as good as drink to my mate Bill."
-- Some of the man's money if he had any was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts.
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