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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, when she mar-ried she did not say to herself, 'Never mind a mean action if it leads to the end in view,' as her brother would certainly have said in such a case; it is quite probable that he may have said it when he expressed his elder-brotherly satisfaction at her decision.
-- The most probable explanation of the matter is that you never loved either the one or the other in reality.'
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：
-- 'You hear our probable fortunes, Cora,' said Duncan, 'and you know we have everything to hope from the anxiety and experience of your father.
-- As there were horses, to leave the prints of their footsteps, in both bands of the Indians, this interruption cut off any probable hopes of assistance being conveyed through the means of their trail.
-- To the reiterated and earnest questions of her sister concerning their probable destination, she made no other answer than by pointing toward the dark group, with an agitation she could not control, and murmuring as she folded Alice to her bosom.
-- Never minstrel, or by whatever more suitable name David should be known, drew upon his tal-ents in the presence of more insensible auditors; though considering the singleness and sincerity of his motive, it is probable that no bard of profane song ever uttered notes that ascended so near to that throne where all homage and praise is due.
-- 'Tis not probable that any are as houseless as ourselves in this dreary forest.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
-- I thought it probable enough that Blanche Stroeve would not continue to find life with Strickland tolerable, but one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was scarcely probable that they would find the box, which the waves had rolled about among the pebbles, at high tide, but it was as well to try.
-- But what Pencroft thought most probable was, that Neb had pushed his researches on the shore farther than the day before, and that he had not as yet had time to return.
-- But every sort of wood does not answer for the purpose, and besides, there is "the knack," following the usual expression, and it is probable that Pencroft had not "the knack."
-- Even the couroucous were invisible, and it was probable that the sailor would be obliged to return to the marshy part of the forest, in which he had so happily performed his grouse fishing.
-- Therefore it was probable that Harding could easily solve the question of "island or continent," to which he attached so much importance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child's, for child she certainly was, although I thought it probable from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
-- There were indeed four sides to the counting-house, but he avoided that one where the window was, deeming it probable that Quilp would be looking out of it.
-- Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale.
-- It is probable that the loss of the phoenix of clerks, even to a rival practitioner, would not have broken Mr Brass's heart; but, pretending great alacrity, he rose from his seat, and going to the door, returned, introducing his client, who led by the hand no less a person than Mr Richard Swiveller.
-- This is the more probable from the circumstance of Mr Swiveller directing his observations to the ceiling, which these bodily personages are usually supposed to inhabit except in theatrical cases, when they live in the heart of the great chandelier.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was telling them of the remarkable turn given to the probable result of the case by the dexterity of a famous lawyer, by which an old lady, who was in the right, would be obliged to pay an enormous sum to the adverse side.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was still casting about in my thoughts to find some probable excuse, Dr. Livesey called me to his side.
-- Both the squire and I returned the shot, but as we had nothing to aim at, it is probable we only wasted powder.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or a more convenient, economical, and consequently more probable alternative would he be satisfied to rise and take breath at the surface of the water, like a whale, and so renew for twenty-four hours the atmospheric provision?
-- It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast sheet of water.
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