maybe是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adv. 可能; 大概; 也许,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Maybe you will have other things to do, besides, but you are sent chiefly for my sake, I feel sure of it.
-- Maybe God will yet bring you near to one another.'
-- I remarked to him, as I rose to depart, that, in spite of the contrast and the wide differences between us two, les extremites se touchent ('extremes meet,' as I explained to him in Russian); so that maybe he was not so far from my final conviction as ap-peared.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let me beseech this cruel and terrible man, if maybe he will respect the feel-ing of his fellow-men, and have compassion on my old age.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Maybe thy great weight has something to do with the matter,' said Baloo.
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:
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's only to say that I shall see him to-morrow or maybe next day, and that I couldn't do that little business for him this morning.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Maybe there was also the ordinary feeling of jealousy; he was so used to her love that he could not think that she was capable of loving any one else.
-- Maybe it will be possible to leave somebody with him."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Three years he were the man of this island, light and dark, fair and rain; and sometimes he would maybe think upon a prayer (says you), and sometimes he would maybe think of his old mother, so be as she's alive (you'll say); but the most part of Gunn's time (this is what you'll say) the most part of his time was took up with another matter.
-- I come here and prayed, nows and thens, when I thought maybe a Sunday would be about doo.
-- And I'll not deny neither but what some of my people was shook maybe all was shook; maybe I was shook myself; maybe that's why I'm here for terms.
-- Maybe you think we were all a sheet in the wind's eye.
-- Well, maybe we'd been taking a glass, and a song to help it round.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Maybe I am, maybe I ain't,' I says.
-- Think's I, maybe it's pap, though I warn't expecting him.
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