possibility是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 可能， 可能性； 可能的事， 希望，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：
-- In the hunted air of the people there was yet some wild-beast thought of the possibility of turning at bay.
-- Whether it was a son who would never know his father's story; who might even live to weigh the possibility of his father's having disappeared of his own will and act.
-- It was enough that he could and did see her when the chances served, and on that possibility she would have waited out the day, seven days a week.
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：
-- We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the relations of the husband and wife the same estrangement still remained, but there was no talk now of separation, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the possibility of explanation and reconciliation.
-- As he saw all this, there came over him for an instant a doubt of the possibility of arranging the new life, of which he had been dreaming on the road.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's loving someone other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself.
-- For the first time the question presented itself to him of the possibility of his wife's loving someone else, and he was horrified at it.
-- This did not interest Levin, but when he had finished, Levin went back to his first position, and, addressing Sviazhsky, and trying to draw him into expressing his serious opinion:- "That the standard of culture is falling, and that with our present relations to the peasants there is no possibility of famling on a rational system to yield a profit--that's perfectly true," said he.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real tragedy, he felt, was that though Gottlieb had betrayed him and ended his career, ended the possibility of his mastering science and of marrying Leora, he still worshiped the man.
-- However, gentlemen,' I said, 'the impulse that prompts me to consider, in all modesty, your unexpected and probably undeserved honor is the fact that it seems to me that what Congress needs is more forward-looking scientists to plan and more genu-ine trained business men to execute the improvements demanded by our evolving commonwealth, and also the possibility of persuading the Boys there at Washington of the pre- eminent and crying need of a Secretary of Health who shall completely control--'" But no matter what Martin thought about it, the Republicans really did nominate Pickerbaugh for Congress.
-- As Martin listened to Terry Wickett (rude and slangy as ever, referring to himself as "the boy chemist," speaking of "this gaudy Institute" and "our trusting new lil brother, Arrowsmith") debating with a slight thin-bearded man--Dr. William T. Smith, assistant in bio-chemistry--the possibility of increasing the effects of all enzymes by doses of X-rays, as he heard one associate- member vituperate another for his notions of cell-chemistry and denounce Ehrlich as "the Edison of medical science," Martin perceived new avenues of exciting research; he stood on a mountain, and unknown valleys, craggy tantalizing paths, were open to his feet.
-- Martin realized that he was off for the perilous sea and the perilous plague; that there was no possibility of leaving the ship till they should reach some distant island.
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：
-- But as soon as one is ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of the or-ganism is broken, one begins to realise the possibility of another world; and the more seriously ill one is, the closer 408 Crime and Punishmentbecomes one's contact with that other world, so that as soon as the man dies he steps straight into that world.
-- To say nothing of your strange and offensive setting me on a level with an- impertinent boy, you admit the possibility of breaking your promise to me.
-- I only said a word to her in passing yesterday of the possibility of her obtaining a year's salary as a destitute widow of a gov-ernment clerk.
-- 'Allow me to ask,' Sonia rose to her feet, 'did you say something to her yesterday of the possibility of a pension?
-- 'Excuse me, excuse me; of course it would be rather dif-594 Crime and Punishmentficult for Katerina Ivanovna to understand, but do you know that in Paris they have been conducting serious ex-periments as to the possibility of curing the insane, simply by logical argument?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winterweather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it,everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, adaymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight thatbrooded on my wits, and blunted them!
-- I can recollect, indeed, tohave speculated, at odd times, on the possibility of my not beingtaught any more, or cared for any more; and growing up to be ashabby moody man, lounging an idle life away, about the village;as well as on the feasibility of my getting rid of this picture bygoing away somewhere, like the hero in a story.
-- On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed inby the pagoda and the guitar-case and Dora's flower-painting, andmy writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of hisusing his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, 'Oceans of room, Copperfield!I assure you, oceans!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The possibility of the young man's coming to Mrs. Goddard's that morning, and meeting with Harriet and pleading his own cause, gave alarming ideas.
-- It had no advantage of situation; but had been very much smartened up by the present proprietor; and, such as it was, there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a slackened pace and observing eyes. Emma's remark was 'There it is.
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