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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any one may judge what a condition I must be in at all this, who was but a young sailor, and who had been in such a fright before at but a little.
-- This was the only voyage which I may say was success-ful in all my adventures, which I owe to the integrity and honesty of my friend the captain; under whom also I got a competent knowledge of the mathematics and the rules of navigation, learned how to keep an account of the ship's course, take an observation, and, in short, to understand some things that were needful to be understood by a sailor; for, as he took delight to instruct me, I took delight to learn; and, in a word, this voyage made me both a sailor and a merchant; for I brought home five pounds nine ounces of gold-dust for my adventure, which yielded me in London, at my return, almost 300 pounds; and this filled me with those aspiring thoughts which have since so completed my ruin.
-- It may be we may kill some alcamies (a fowl like our curlews) for ourselves, for I know he keeps the gunner's stores in the ship.'
-- 'Well, Xury,' said I, 'then I won't; but it may be that we may see men by day, who will be as bad to us as those li-ons.'
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted with.
-- "There is no knowing what THEY may expect," said the lady, "but we are not to think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do."
-- "Certainly and I think I may afford to give them five hundred pounds a-piece.
-- If they marry, they will be sure of doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten thousand pounds."
-- It may be very inconvenient some years to spare a hundred, or even fifty pounds from our own expenses."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
-- He was, for the order of intellect represented, attractive, and whatever he had to recommend him, you may be sure was not lost upon Carrie, in this, her first glance.
-- The dullest feel something which they may not always express or describe.
-- "Perhaps," she thought, "they may want some one," and crossed over to enter.
-- Indeed, as she sat in her rocking-chair these several evenings before going to bed and looked out upon the pleasantly lighted street, this money cleared for its prospective possessor the way to every joy and every bauble which the heart of woman may desire.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a min-ute I see I was mistaken that is, after the first jolt, as you may say, when my breath sort of hitched, he being so un-expected; but right away after I see I warn't scared of him worth bothring about.
-- Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me I'll never vote agin as long as I live.
-- Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread him- self out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it.
-- 'Well, that may be so, and it mayn't.
-- He told me to make myself easy and at home, and tell all about myself; but the old lady says: 'Why, bless you, Saul, the poor thing's as wet as he can be; and don't you reckon it may be he's hungry?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it may flatter you to know, Mastro Antonio, that I have come to you to beg for a favor."
-- If we leave that poor Marionette in his hands he may tear him to pieces!"
-- What happened after this is an almost unbelievable story, but you may read it, dear children, in the chapters that follow.
-- Bad, very bad!In this world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything, for we never know what life may hold in store for us!"
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