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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their report was that one of the branches of the screw was bent, and had got jammed against the stern post, which of course prevented all possibility of rotation.
-- John, impatient of delay, cut the rope, thus sacrificing his anchor, and also the possibility of anchoring again if this tide failed to carry them to land.
-- The clump of bush was invisible, though they knew it was there, and but for the possibility of an ambush, Glenarvan counted on being safe when the party arrived at that point.
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：
-- 'We had best ascertain if he is really there, or if by any possibility he might be in London.'
-- Sir Henry was much interested and asked Sta-pleton more than once whether he did really believe in the possibility of the interference of the supernatural in the af-fairs of men.
-- The law is upon his side, and every day I am faced by the possibility that he may force me to live with him.
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, the special point to which the two friends partic-ularly trusted to bring about their object (namely, Gania's attractiveness for Nastasia Philipovna), stood out more and more prominently; the pourparlers had commenced, and gradually even Totski began to believe in the possibility of success.
-- That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could not doubt, nor even admit the possibility of doubt.
-- Surely he had not forgotten the possibility of such a meet-ing when he came to the Vauxhall?
-- If, loving a woman above everything in the world, or at least having a foretaste of the possibility of such love for her, one were suddenly to behold her on a chain, behind bars and under the lash of a keeper, one would feel something like what the poor prince now felt.
-- He had never before seen the prince in such a strange condition of mind, and could not have imagined the possibility of it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At the thought of the possibility of my work being exposed or interrupted at its very climax, I became very angry and active.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that was so, and proceeded to point out that the possibility of vivisection does not stop at a mere physi-cal metamorphosis.
-- In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of superseding old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas.
-- They were really hypnotised; had been told that certain things were impossible, and that certain things were not to be done, and these prohibitions were woven into the texture of their minds beyond any possibility of disobedience or dispute.
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：
-- Hey-ward withdrew to the rampart, too uneasy and too little accustomed to the warfare of the woods to remain at ease under the possibility of such insidious attacks.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor.
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：
-- You can put any possibility of that definitely out of your head."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- " Elinor could have given her immediate relief by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother, rather than her own, whom they were about to behold; but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with great sincerity, that she did pity her to the utter amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself, hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know," said Carrie vaguely--a flash vision of the possibility of her not securing employment rising in her mind.
-- Drouet had a desire to wipe out the possibility of confusion.
-- The hours slipped by, and with them the possibility of the union he had contemplated.
-- He had loved her earnestly enough, but now that the possibility of losing her stared him in the face she seemed much more attractive.
-- His whole thought was the possibility of persuading Carrie.
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