probability是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 可能性， 或然性， 概率，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am in complete agreement with her, Rodya, and share all her plans and hopes, and think there is every probability of realising them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor having been upstairs and come down again, and havingsatisfied himself, I suppose, that there was a probability of thisunknown lady and himself having to sit there, face to face, forsome hours, laid himself out to be polite and social.
-- She was evidently still afraid of Miss Betsey, for she sent hergrateful duty to her but timidly; and she was evidently afraid ofme, too, and entertained the probability of my running away againsoon; if I might judge from the repeated hints she threw out, thatthe coach-fare to Yarmouth was always to be had of her for theasking.
-- Walking along the street, reflecting upon the probability ofsomething turning up (of which I am at present rather sanguine), Ifind a young but valued friend turn up, who is connected with themost eventful period of my life; I may say, with the turning pointof my existence.
-- Firstly, on account of its being sowell worth seeing, and our never having seen it; and secondly, onaccount of the great probability of something turning up in acathedral town.
-- If it had lasted any longer, I think I must have gone down on myknees on the gravel, with the probability before me of grazingthem, and of being presently ejected from the premises besides.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had made his fortune, bought his house, and obtained his wife; and was beginning a new period of ex-istence, with every probability of greater happiness than in any yet passed through.
-- I felt that, as to fortune, in all probability he might do much better; and that as to a ratio-nal companion or useful helpmate, he could not do worse.
-- Its probability and its eligibility have re-ally so equalled each other!I am very happy.
-- By birth she belonged to Highbury: and when at three years old, on losing her mother, she became the property, the charge, the consolation, the fondling of her grandmoth-er and aunt, there had seemed every probability of her being permanently fixed there; of her being taught only what very limited means could command, and growing up with no advantages of connexion or improvement, to be engrafted on what nature had given her in a pleasing person, good un-derstanding, and warm-hearted, well-meaning relations.
-- 'I see no probability in it, unless you have any better foundation than what you mention.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood seized it and opened it, expecting another anonymous one so greatly are people's ideas of probability a mere sense that precedent will repeat itself.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Felix was too delicate to accept this offer, yet he looked forward to the probability of the event as to the consummation of his happiness.
-- He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation.
-- But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, be-cause they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May I hint at the probability of your sometimes supplying him with money for these purposes?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, I was very likely to be mistaken--and it was within the range of probability and possibility that we were not making our way through the strata of rocks which I believed I recognized piled on the lower layer of granitic formation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me.
-- He felt himself quite lost in wonder at the manner of the man, and that the probability of his daughter's having had a reserve as to her family history, should be so far out of his mind.
-- Having taken thought of this probability by the way, and having settled that in such case she would follow them, she set off afresh for the theatre, which was on that side of the river, and not very far away.
-- When, to these three-fold points of prudence there is added the fact that Mrs Gowan yielded her consent the moment she knew of Mr Meagles having yielded his, and that Mr Meagles's objection to the marriage had been the sole obstacle in its way all along, it becomes the height of probability that the relict of the deceased Commissioner of nothing particular, turned these ideas in her sagacious mind.
-- However, no more was said about it, though much appeared to be thought on all sides: by no means excepting the two young Plornishes, who partook of the evening meal as if their eating the bread and butter were rendered almost superfluous by the painful probability of the worst of men shortly presenting himself for the purpose of eating them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him; I almost felt like pushing him over, so as to change his position, for it was almost intolerable, it seemed so painfully and unnaturally constrained; especially, as in all probability he had been sitting so for upwards of eight or ten hours, going too without his regular meals.
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