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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for the learned geographer, he was probably the happiest man in all the southern hemisphere.
-- "I have to add," said Ayrton, "that the principal difficulties are not the obstacles in the road, but the Snowy River has to be crossed, and most probably we must wait till the water goes down."
-- "That is probably the case, Mulrady," replied Glenarvan.
-- They were to follow the course of the Snowy River, follow its banks till they reached the place indicated by Ben Joyce, and especially they were to keep out of sight of the convicts, who were probably scouring the bush.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You put the matter more flippantly, Mr. Holmes, than you would probably do if you were brought into personal contact with these things.
-- I shall probably find some work awaiting me.
-- All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your se-verely practical mind.
-- He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
-- On seeing him lying still the crea-ture had probably approached to sniff at him, but finding him dead had turned away again.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Probably when he is alone he looks quite different, and hardly smiles at all!'
-- Probably he has very strict instructions on that score; but I assure you I did not come to beg.
-- It appeared that the general had known Pavlicheff; but why the latter had taken an interest in the prince, that young gentleman could not explain; probably by virtue of the old friendship with his father, he thought.
-- The general and his wife were aware of this agreement, and, therefore, when Totski suggested himself for one of the sisters, the parents made no doubt that one of the two el-der girls would probably accept the offer, since Totski would certainly make no difficulty as to dowry.
-- 'Oh, I happened to recall it, that's all!It fitted into the conversation ' 'You probably wish to deduce, prince,' said Alexandra, 'that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless trea-sures.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This extraordinary story probably a fabrication.
-- "It's very probably been killed," said the Invisible Man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Af-terwards it occurred to me that probably I had seen him as I was lifted aboard; and yet that scarcely satisfied my suspi-cion of a previous acquaintance.
-- Then I thought that the man I had just seen had been clothed in bluish cloth, had not been naked as a savage would have been; and I tried to persuade myself from that fact that he was after all probably a peaceful character, that the dull ferocity of his counte-nance belied him.
-- Less so, and probably far more extensive, were the operations of those mediaeval practitioners who made dwarfs and beg-gar-cripples, show-monsters, some vestiges of whose art still remain in the preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist.
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:
-- As Hawkeye ceased speaking, four human heads could be seen peering above a few logs of drift-wood that had lodged on these naked rocks, and which had probably suggested the idea of the practicability of the hazardous undertaking.
-- This consideration probably hastened their deter-mination, and quickened the subsequent movements.
-- The manhood of Heyward felt no shame in dropping tears over this spectacle of affectionate rapture; and Uncas stood, fresh and blood-stained from the combat, a calm, and, appar-ently, an unmoved looker-on, it is true, but with eyes that had already lost their fierceness, and were beaming with a sympathy that elevated him far above the intelligence, and advanced him probably centuries before, the practises of his nation.
-- If they have gone alone, they are quite as likely to move in a circle as straight, and they may be within a dozen miles of us; but if the Hurons, or any of the French Indians, have laid hands on them, 'tis probably they are now near the bor-ders of the Canadas.
-- It was, in fact, neither the moment nor the occasion for an Indian to boast of his exploits; and it is probably that, had Heyward neglected to inquire, not another syllable would, just then, have been ut-tered on the subject.
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