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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's horrible!But believe me, Kemp, in spite of your arguments of this morning, it is quite a possible thing.
-- I saw pretty clearly this was a transient mood, due to overwork and want of sleep, and that either by drugs or rest it would be possible to recover my energies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- Imagine yourself surrounded by all the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive, and you may understand a little of my feelings with these grotesque caricatures of human-ity about me.
-- You begin to see that it is a possible thing to transplant tissue from one part of an animal to another, or from one animal to another; to alter its chemical reac-tions and methods of growth; to modify the articulations of its limbs; and, indeed, to change it in its most intimate structure.
-- Plants do not feel pain, nor the lower animals; it's possible that such ani-mals as the starfish and crayfish do not feel pain at all.
-- Was this possible or that possible?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After musing a moment, he added: 'It is possible my glasses have deceived me, and that your works resist our cannon better than I had supposed.
-- 'It is possible that the Indians and stragglers of the en-emy may intrude, in which case you will remind them of the terms of the capitulation, and threaten to report their conduct to Montcalm.
-- It is possible that Heyward's estimate of danger differed in some degree from that of the scout, for, instead of re-plying, he now sat in silence, while the canoe glided over several miles of water.
-- Yet here are we, within a short range of the Scaroons, and not a sign of a trail have we crossed!Human natur' is weak, and it is possible we may not have taken the proper scent.'
-- Making the best of the circumstances, the young man pressed forward, keeping as close as possible to his conductor.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
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 is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius.
-- Youth has turned to gods we of an earlier day knew not, and it is possible to see already the direction in which those who come after us will move.
-- She gave me elaborate answers to every possible observation of his.
-- She went on in a low and trembling voice:"I never knew it was possible to hate anyone as much as I hate him.
-- We were like tram-cars running on their lines from terminus to terminus, and it was possible to calculate within small limits the number of passengers they would carry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gideon Spilett was one of that race of indomitable English or American chroniclers, like Stanley and others, who stop at nothing to obtain exact information, and transmit it to their journal in the shortest possible time.
-- Pencroft was an American from the North, who had sailed all the ocean over, and who had gone through every possible and almost impossible adventure that a being with two feet and no wings would encounter.
-- Let us have patience, and at low water it is possible we may find a fordable passage."
-- Now, on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water, and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there.
-- But it was possible that at this time they were both too far away to be perceived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet I lingered about, and could not tear myself away, thinking of all possible harm that might happen to the child of fires and robberies and even murder and feeling as if some evil must ensue if I turned my back upon the place.
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