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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So breakfast as a man who will most likely not have his dinner till very late."
-- Probably they came from the neighbouring islands, or very likely from Papua.
-- Generally, when we can proceed no further, we have return still open to us; but here return was as impossible as advance, for every pass had closed behind us; and for the few moments when we were stationary, we were likely to be entirely blocked, which did indeed happen about two o'clock in the afternoon, the fresh ice forming around its sides with astonishing rapidity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "More likely to be the end of experience."
-- Hermione knew herself to be well-dressed; she knew herself to be the social equal, if not far the superior, of anyone she was likely to meet in Willey Green.
-- "As to that," he said, "I only know that it's much more likely that it's I who am at the beck and call of the woman, than she at mine."
-- "I'm sure a mistress is more likely to be faithful than a wife just because she is her own mistress.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife.
-- Then she began describing with hysterical emotion the effect it produced on her to see black; and started, and trembled, and, at last, fell a weeping and when I asked what was the matter, answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!I imagined her as little likely to die as myself.
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 already candle-light when we reached the hamlet, and I shall never forget how much I was cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and windows; but that, as it proved, was the best of the help we were likely to get in that quarter.
-- "Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; "those he had picked up for himself before he lit on Silver."
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