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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With all possible respect both for Mr. Gradgrind and for Mr. Bounderby, I think I perceive that he has not been fortunate in his training.
-- 'To relieve you from needless apprehension and as this confidence regarding your brother, which I prize I am sure above all possible things, has been established between us I obey.
-- 'An occasion, I am sure, not to be forgotten by myself in the course of Ages,' said Mr. Harthouse, inclining his head to Mrs. Sparsit with the most indolent of all possible airs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Was it possible that I really read the terrible secret, and it had really been accomplished!A man had dared to do--what?
-- To make up the exact list of our traveling gear--for the guidance of future travelers--add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with all apparatus necessary for wounds, fractures and blows; lint, scissors, lancets--in fact, a perfect collection of horrible looking instruments; a number of vials containing ammonia, alcohol, ether, Goulard water, aromatic vinegar, in fact, every possible and impossible drug--finally, all the materials for working the Ruhmkorff coil!
-- Those who could speak kept crying out saellvertu in every possible and impossible key.
-- On this occasion, my uncle partly confided in Hans, the eider-duck hunter, and gave him to understand that it was his intention to continue his exploration of the volcano to the last possible limits.
-- I put it in good faith to any man of common sense--was it possible to hear this energetic cry without a shudder?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were several who would have been quite possible as lover, even Mick.
-- She fled as much as possible to the wood.
-- He had begun to believe it really possible it might even be HIS child.
-- Rowley, the farmer, puts me on to as many jobs as he can, so that I can learn as much as possible between now and next Eas-ter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My friend, how is it possible for me to tell how long you are to lie here?
-- Here I stand, with the contamination of a jail upon me; but it is possible that you may think me better suited to her than her former husband was.'
-- She had an extraordinary repugnance to dining in company; would never do so, if it were possible to escape.
-- He is a man to be shirked, put off, brow-beaten, sneered at, handed over by this highly-connected young or old gentleman, to that highly-connected young or old gentleman, and dodged back again; he is a man with no rights in his own time, or his own property; a mere outlaw, whom it is justifiable to get rid of anyhow; a man to be worn out by all possible means.'
-- It is always possible that he had, and has, good in him if one did but know how to find it out.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old lady likes me, and I'll be as sweet as possible to her, so she won't peck at us, whatever we do.'
-- I mean it shall, if I live to work out my plans,' said Mr. Brooke, smiling at Meg, as if everything had become possible to him now.
-- Mrs. March knew that experience was an excellent teach-er, and when it was possible she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.
-- For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
-- I took it up, and held it close to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it.
-- But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise?
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