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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I can compare the effect of it, when on, to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead; so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress, started through that thin layer of pretence, and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, I fixed upon a resolution, for which it is probable I may incur some censure, and not unjustly; for I confess I owe the preserving of mine eyes, and consequently my liberty, to my own great rashness and want of experience; because, if I had then known the nature of princes and ministers, which I have since observed in many other courts, and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should, with great alacrity and readiness, have submitted 85to so easy a punishment.
-- I made up a story as short and probable as I could, but con-cealed the greatest part.
-- I said farther, 'that if good fortune ever restored me to my native country, to re-late my travels hither, as I resolved to do, everybody would believe, that I said the thing that was not, that I invented the story out of my own head; and (with all possible respect to himself, his family, and friends, and under his promise of not being offended) our countrymen would hardly think it probable that a Houyhnhnm should be the presiding crea-ture of a nation, and a Yahoo the brute.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The circumstances appeared very probable and very logical, but it was all surmise to me.
-- "To me it appears probable that this sentence was written by some owner of the book.
-- My flesh crawled as it became probable that he would discover the secret.
-- The last words spoken by my uncle seemed to be buzzing in my ears--all is over!And it was probable that he was right.
-- It is very probable that many a landslip took place in those days, and that large portions of sedimentary soil were cast into huge and mighty chasms."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You mustn't think of going yet,' said Flora Arthur had looked at his hat, being in a ludicrous dismay, and not knowing what to do: 'you could never be so unkind as to think of going, Arthur I mean Mr Arthur or I suppose Mr Clennam would be far more proper but I am sure I don't know what I am saying without a word about the dear old days gone for ever, when I come to think of it I dare say it would be much better not to speak of them and it's highly probable that you have some much more agreeable engagement and pray let Me be the last person in the world to interfere with it though there was a time, but I am running into nonsense again.'
-- It is probable that both these representations were of ex post facto origin; the young gentleman (whose expressive name was Sparkler) being monomaniacal in offering marriage to all manner of undesirable young ladies, and in remarking of every successive young lady to whom he tendered a matrimonial proposal that she was 'a doosed fine gal well educated too with no biggodd nonsense about her.'
-- It seems probable that mediocrity of fortune would have been disposed to be less magnanimous than the Collegians, who lived from hand to mouth from the pawnbroker's hand to the day's dinner.
-- said Flora, 'with the grapes growing everywhere and lava necklaces and bracelets too that land of poetry with burning mountains picturesque beyond belief though if the organ-boys come away from the neighbourhood not to be scorched nobody can wonder being so young and bringing their white mice with them most humane, and is she really in that favoured land with nothing but blue about her and dying gladiators and Belvederes though Mr F. himself did not believe for his objection when in spirits was that the images could not be true there being no medium between expensive quantities of linen badly got up and all in creases and none whatever, which certainly does not seem probable though perhaps in consequence of the extremes of rich and poor which may account for it.'
-- 'My love,' Fanny began, 'our characters and points of view are sufficiently different (kiss me again, my darling), to make it very probable that I shall surprise you by what I am going to say.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.
-- The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations.
-- At the time, I devoted three days to the studious digesting of all this beer, beef, and bread, during which many profound thoughts were incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic application; and, furthermore, I compiled supplementary tables of my own, touching the probable quantity of stock-fish, etc., consumed by every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen whale fishery.
-- For such is the wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket commanders; that from the simple observation of a whale when last descried, they will, under certain given circumstances, pretty accurately foretell both the direction in which he will continue to swim for a time, while out of sight, as well as his probable rate of progression during that period.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- But these impertinences were speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very self-devotional.
-- Or has my probable advancement to riches and honour, given this scruple birth?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt it to be the probable consequence of her allusions to Mr. Wickham, and rejoiced in it.
-- 'I have never heard him say so; but it is probable that he may spend very little of his time there in the future.
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