may是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为aux. /v. 可能， 也许； 可以， 被允许； 祝， 愿，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
-- 'Much good may it do you!Much good it has ever done you!'
-- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Par-liament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
-- Half a dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have light-ed the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.
-- You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He may come close; there's nothing wrong.'
-- I may read this?'
-- The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it: 'I wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day.
-- She may ask for Mr. Jar-vis Lorry, or she may only ask for a gentleman from Tellson's Bank.
-- 'At that time I may ask, at what time, sir?'
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：
-- 'But do you all stand before me that no one may see us.'
-- Tell him he shall, as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me, and may take the rest from the ladies of the court.'
-- 'May I ask with whom I have the pleasure of speaking?'
-- Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
-- No doubt it would, in its anxiety, run off to the police, and then to the 'Hue and Cry' office, to announce that 'the finder will be handsomely rewarded,' and at last away to the hospital; yet we may boldly assert that the soul is shrewdest when it shakes off every fetter, and every sort of leading-string the body only makes it stupid.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you come near me, I will call in the servants, the children!They may all know you are a scoundrel!I am going away at once, and you may live here with your mistress!"
-- Strange as it may appear, it was with the household, the family, that Konstantin Levin was in love, especially with the feminine half of the household.
-- "But I would advise you to settle the thing as soon as may be," pursued Oblonsky, filling up his glass.
-- Before you've time to look round, you feel that you can't love your wife with love, however much you may esteem her.
-- "I hope I may have the honor of calling on you," he said.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.
-- "On the contrary," broke in Ralph, "I hope we may put our hands on the robber.
-- The effect of these replies upon the already suspicious and excited detective may be imagined.
-- You see, a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days!No; all these gymnastics, you may be sure, will cease at Bombay."
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