potential是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可能的, 潜在的; n. 潜能; 潜力，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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still she was gnawed as by a neuralgia, tormented by his potential absence from her.
-- But her skin was clear and fine, her hands, as she sat with them forgotten and folded, were quite beautiful, full of potential energy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This waiter, who was middle-aged and spare, 757looked for help to a waiter of more authority- a stout, potential oldman, with a double-chin, in black breeches and stockings, whocame out of a place like a church-warden's pew, at the end of thecoffee-room, where he kept company with a cash-box, a Directory,a Law-list, and other books and papers.
-- The potential waiter waved him away, and turned, gravely, to me.
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