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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gas escaped without any possibility of retaining it.
-- The car was only a sort of willow basket, unable to float, and there was not the slightest possibility of maintaining it on the surface of the sea.
-- Two difficulties remained; firstly, the possibility of lighting this excavation in the midst of solid rock; secondly, the necessity of rendering the means of access more easy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the knocking, however, instead of accommodating itself to his lazy state, increased in vigour and became more importunate, as if in earnest remonstrance against his falling asleep again, now that he had once opened his eyes, Daniel Quilp began by degrees to comprehend the possibility of there being somebody at the door; and thus he gradually came to recollect that it was Friday morning, and he had ordered Mrs Quilp to be in waiting upon him at an early hour.
-- He carried in his pocket, too, a fire-box of mysterious and unknown construction; and as sure as ever Kit's mother closed her eyes, so surely whisk, rattle, fizz there was the single gentleman consulting his watch by a flame of fire, and letting the sparks fall down among the straw as if there were no such thing as a possibility of himself and Kit's mother being roasted alive before the boys could stop their horses.
-- He had no idea at first of ever quitting Mr Garland's service; but, after serious remonstrance and advice from that gentleman, began to contemplate the possibility of such a change being brought about in time.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.
-- There was still the possibility of a struggle.
-- But Siberia and penal servitude at once destroyed the possibility of their meeting again.
-- The discord was so great, the defilement so thorough, that at first he despaired of the possibility of a complete cleansing.
-- He always strictly carried out the orders of his superiors, and considered their execution of great importance and significance, so much so that while everything in the world could be changed, these orders, according to him, were above the possibility of any alteration.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied.
-- This possibility had occurred to me again and again while I was making the machine; but then I had cheerfully accepted it as an unavoidable risk one of the risks a man has got to take!Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light.
-- "At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not speak of the possibility of dying of hunger, for the supply of provisions in the Nautilus will certainly last longer than we shall.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It doesn't allow any possibility of flowering."
-- But we ought to swear to love each other, you and I, implicitly, and perfectly, finally, without any possibility of going back on it."
-- "We will swear to stand by each other be true to each other ultimately infallibly given to each other, organically without possibility of taking back."
-- And then you realise that it was there all the time it was always there you understand what I mean? the possibility of this incurable illness, this slow death."
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