probable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 很可能的， 大概的； 有希望的， 可能的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 168 A tale of two cities 'Ah!It is not probable he will arrive to-night; neverthe-less, leave the table as it is.
-- It is probable that there had long been a dread lurking in his mind, that those associations would be recalled say, under certain circumstances say, on a particular occasion.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such meteorous appearances are to be explained in this way that they are the reflections of the Aurora Borealis, and it is highly probable they are caused principally by elec-tricity.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what is more probable and what would doubtless occur--I should be killed or wounded.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each delay filled him with hope, for it became more and more probable that Fogg would be obliged to remain some days at Hong Kong; and now the heavens themselves became his allies, with the gusts and squalls.
-- So great had been the expense of his tour that, even had he won, it would not have enriched him; and it is probable that he had not sought to enrich himself, being a man who rather laid wagers for honour's sake than for the stake proposed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He resented Clif's probable scoffing.
-- It is probable that his success in motor-salesmanship came entirely from his fondness for the enormous amounts of bright conversation which seem necessary in that occupation.
-- Silva diagnosed it as probable gastric ulcer, and placed her on treatment, with light and frequent meals.
-- He preached to himself, as Max Gottlieb had once preached to him, the loyalty of dissent, the faith of being very doubtful, the gospel of not bawling gospels, the wisdom of admitting the probable ignorance of one's self and of everybody else, and the energetic acceleration of a Movement for going very slow.
-- He gave up the question, went home, explained almost frankly to Joyce what her probable opinion of Clif would be, and contrived that Clif should be invited to dinner with only the two of them.
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：
-- It seemed quite probable that he had not undressed or washed for the last five days.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she took in her history, indeed, her situation, as well as her beauty; when she con-sidered what all this elegance was destined to, what she was going to sink from, how she was going to live, it seemed impossible to feel any thing but compassion and respect; es-pecially, if to every well-known particular entitling her to interest, were added the highly probable circumstance of an attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had so naturally start-ed to herself.
-- The more I think of it, the more probable it appears.
-- She felt for Harriet, with pain and with contrition; but no flight of generosity run mad, opposing all that could be probable or reasonable, entered her brain.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part vistas of probable triumphs the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.
-- In contemplating Bathsheba as a woman, he had forgotten the accidents of her position as an agriculturist that being as much of a farmer, and as extensive a farmer, as himself, her probable whereabouts was out-of-doors at this time of the year.
-- It was in the latter part of June, and the day after the interview with Troy in the hayfield, that Bathsheba was standing in her garden, watching a swarm in the air and guessing their probable settling place.
-- It is more than probable that she privately and unconsciously respected him a little for this grim fidelity, which had been shown in his tone even more than in his words.
-- Taking no further interest in herself as a splendid woman, she acquired the indifferent feelings of an outsider in contemplating her probable fate as a singular wretch; for Bathsheba drew herself and her future in colours that no reality could exceed for darkness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He belonged to the number of young men who know as children that their parents' hopes are centered on them, and deliberately prepare themselves for a great career, subordinating their studies from the first to this end, carefully watching the indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 13Letter 4To Mrs. Saville, England August 5th, 17 So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your posses-sion.
-- Several other men were examined concerning my land-215ing, and they agreed that, with the strong north wind that had arisen during the night, it was very probable that I had beaten about for many hours and had been obliged to re-turn nearly to the same spot from which I had departed.
-- September 5th A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.
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