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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
-- Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
-- As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.
-- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver, So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.
-- Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this "Spouter" may be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable.
-- It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
-- Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?'
-- 'Well, well, Mrs. Mann,' he replied in a calmer tone; 'it may be as you say; it may be.
-- Notwithstanding the most superlative, and, I may say, supernat'ral exertions on the part of this parish,' said Bumble, 'we have never been able to discover who is his father, or what was his mother's settlement, name, or con--dition.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
-- 'Design!Nonsense, how can you talk so!But it is very likely that he MAY fall in love with one of them, and there-fore you must visit him as soon as he comes.'
-- You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.'
-- 'Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to HER.'
-- 'Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose,' said Mr. Bennet; and, as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may finish this.'
-- 'Here!You may have one.'
-- Here I stand, with the contamination of a jail upon me; but it is possible that you may think me better suited to her than her former husband was.'
-- I may have been seen to slap her face nothing more.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Women By Louisa May AlcottPublished by Planet eBook.
-- A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.
-- I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.'
-- 'It is only another name for trying to be good, and the story may help us, for though we do want to be good, it's hard work and we forget, and don't do our best.'
-- 'May I go and help carry the things to the poor little chil-dren?'
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