probably是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 或许, 大概,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He must have had a tiresome journey of it, for Mr. Wopsle, being knocked up, was in such a very bad temper that if the Church had been thrown open, he would probably have excommunicated the whole expedition, beginning with Joe and myself.
-- Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
-- If there had been time, I should probably have ordered several suits of clothes for this occasion; but as there was not, I was fain to be content with those I had.
-- Herbert probably would have been scratching his head in a most rueful manner at the sight of his accumulating figures.
-- She carried a bare candle in her hand, which she had probably taken from one of the sconces in her own room, and was a most unearthly object by its light.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honour I made them for so I inter-preted my submissive behaviour soon drove out these imaginations.
-- After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye.
-- Sometimes they de-termined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
-- He desired 'I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me; for probably I might carry about me sever-al weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.'
-- 'The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insup-portable; that the secretary's expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the com-mon practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred maj-esty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the 82 Gulliver's Travelsformal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was an affectionate father, after his manner; but he would probably have described himself (if he had been put, like Sissy Jupe, upon a definition) as 'an eminently practical' father.
-- I call her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in the world, except my drunken grandmother.
-- Which, by the by, he probably did know, for he had heard of it often enough.
-- 'I inferred, from its being so miserable a marriage, that it was probably an unequal one in point of years.'
-- every now and then; and they probably would have decided him to 'go in' for Jerusalem again to-morrow morning, had he been less curious respecting Louisa.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 76 FrankensteinChapter 7 n my return, I found the following letter from my Ofather: 'My dear Victor, 'You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
-- She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupt-ed by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person 168 Frankensteinfrom whom she had playfully fled.
-- This idea was probably suggested by the extreme agitation I had exhibited when the mode of the murder had been described.
-- We were immured in ice and should probably never escape, but they feared that if, as was pos-sible, the ice should dissipate and a free passage be opened, I should be rash enough to continue my voyage and lead them into fresh dangers, after they might happily have sur-mounted this.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everybody knew he'd probably marry her someday, just like Honey Wilkes is going to marry Miss Melly's brother, Charles."
-- And probably always will.
-- I've always acted so prissy and ladylike and touch-me-not around him he probably thinksI don't care a thing about him except as a friend.
-- And probably he thinksthat if he can't have me, he might as well please his family and marry Melanie.
-- India was nowhere to be seen, but Scarlett knew she probably was in the kitchen giving final instructions to theservants.
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