possible是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可能的， 做得到的； 合理的； 可允许的，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will ap-pear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.'
-- I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to re-cord, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
-- It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.
-- I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he un-derstood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that possible when I did not even understand the sounds for which they stood as signs?
-- I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If no love lay between Ashley and Melanie but only a promise given long ago, then why wasn't it possible forhim to break that promise and marry her?
-- No girl in the County, with the possible exception of the empty-headed Cathleen Calvert, really likedScarlett.
-- She had not wanted him andshe resented his coming and, now that he was here, it did not seem possible that he was hers, a part of her.
-- How the town had grown!It was not much more than a year since she had last been here, and it didnot seem possible that the little Atlanta she knew could have changed so much.
-- They brought up every possible argument.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
-- Isn't it just barely possible that Uncle Pumblechook may be a tenant of hers, and that he may sometimes--we won't say quarterly or half-yearly, for that would be requiring too much of you--but sometimes--go there to pay his rent?
-- Besides being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted to my diet,--besides giving me as much crumb as possible in combination with as little butter, and putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,--his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic.
-- It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.
-- She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death.
-- 'Ah, heav-ens,' she said, 'is it possible that my poor children whom he has swallowed down for his supper, can be still alive?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of read-ers.
-- I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition.
-- This great prince received me at my landing with all possible encomiums, and created me a nardac upon the spot, which is the highest title of honour among them.
-- And although her husband received her with all possible kindness, and without the least reproach, she soon after contrived to steal down again, with all her jewels, to the same gallant, and has not been heard of since.
-- He stroked my right hand, seeming to admire the softness and colour; but he squeezed it so hard between his hoof and his pastern, that I was forced to roar; after which they both touched me with all possible tenderness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The girl wanted to come to the school, and Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come to the school, and Louisa and Thomas both said that the girl wanted to come, and that Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come, and how was it possible to contradict them when such was the fact!'
-- In the measure that he would not allow his own youth to have been attended by a single favourable circumstance, he brightened Mrs. Sparsit's juvenile career with every possible advantage, and showered waggon-loads of early roses all over that lady's path.
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