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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What we have to do now is to put together all the words we have found, and translate them into one language, and try to ascertain their most probable and logical sense."
-- Nor did she mention the probable captivity of Captain Grant among the Indians of South America.
-- Sergeant Manuel seemed so enchanted that it would have been useless to express a contrary opinion, either to the profession of arms or the probable future of his children.
-- "If your father is in the hands of the natives, which seems probable from the document, we shall find him."
-- This precaution was necessary, for an attack on the part of the convicts would be easy enough, and therefore probable enough.
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：
-- On what occasion would it be most probable that such a presentation would be made?
-- Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began: 'The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candi-date for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
-- In fact, if you had not gone to-day it is exceed-ingly probable that I should have gone to-morrow.'
-- We must wish you good-morning now, Mrs. Lyons, and it is probable that you will very shortly hear from us again.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when Elizabeth told of his silence; it did not seem very likely, even to Charlotte's wishes, to be the case; and after various conjectures, they could at last only suppose his visit to proceed from the difficulty of finding anything to do, which was the more probable from the time of year.
-- He had certainly formed such a plan, and without meaning that it should effect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it might add some-thing to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend.
-- But at last your uncle was forced to yield, and instead of being allowed to be of use to his niece, was forced to put up with only having the probable credit of it, which went sorely against the grain; and I really believe your letter this morning gave him great pleasure, because it required an ex-planation that would rob him of his borrowed feathers, and give the praise where it was due.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I used half as much pru-dence to have looked into my own interest, and have made a judgment of what I ought to have done and not to have done, I had certainly never gone away from so prosperous an undertaking, leaving all the probable views of a thriving circumstance, and gone upon a voyage to sea, attended with all its common hazards, to say nothing of the reasons I had to expect particular misfortunes to myself.
-- This thought ran long in my head, and I was exceeding fond of it for some time, the pleasantness of the place tempt-ing me; but when I came to a nearer view of it, I considered that I was now by the seaside, where it was at least possible that something might happen to my advantage, and, by the same ill fate that brought me hither might bring some oth-er unhappy wretches to the same place; and though it was scarce probable that any such thing should ever happen, yet to enclose myself among the hills and woods in the centre of the island was to anticipate my bondage, and to render such an affair not only improbable, but impossible; and that therefore I ought not by any means to remove.
-- From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition than it was probable I should ever have been in any other particular state in the world; and with this thought I was going to give thanks to God for bring-ing me to this place.
-- Pray note, all this was the fruit of a disturbed mind, an impatient temper, made desper-ate, as it were, by the long continuance of my troubles, and the disappointments I had met in the wreck I had been on board of, and where I had been so near obtaining what I so earnestly longed for - somebody to speak to, and to learn some knowledge from them of the place where I was, and of the probable means of my deliverance.
-- My next thing was to contrive how to do it, and this, indeed, was very difficult to resolve on; but as I could pitch upon no probable means for it, so I resolved to put myself upon the watch, to see them when they came on shore, and leave the rest to the event; taking such measures as the opportunity should present, let what would be.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her opinion varying with every fresh conjecture, and all seeming equally probable as they arose.
-- She thought it probable that as they lived in the same county, Mrs. Palmer might be able to give some more particular account of Willoughby's general character, than could be gathered from the Middletons' partial acquaintance with him; and she was eager to gain from any one, such a confirmation of his merits as might remove the possibility of fear from Marianne.
-- As for Marianne, on the pangs which so unhappy a meeting must already have given her, and on those still more severe which might await her in its probable consequence, she could not reflect without the deepest concern.
-- It was some minutes before she could go on with her letter, and the frequent bursts of grief which still obliged her, at intervals, to withhold her pen, were proofs enough of her feeling how more than probable it was that she was writing for the last time to Willoughby.
-- "I met Mrs. Jennings in Bond Street," said he, after the first salutation, "and she encouraged me to come on; and I was the more easily encouraged, because I thought it probable that I might find you alone, which I was very desirous of doing.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In walking a few blocks to fix upon some probable place, she again encountered the firm of Storm and King, and this time managed to get in.
-- It is probable that Carrie represented a better order of woman than had ever attracted him before.
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