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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER IV MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGER I have told the circumstances of the stranger's arrival in Iping with a certain fulness of detail, in order that the curious impression he created may be understood by the reader.
-- But excepting two odd incidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I may say it,' said I, after a time, 'you have saved my life.'
-- 'Whatever you tell me, you may rely upon my keeping to myself if that's it.'
-- It may seem a little thing to you, perhaps, but it came like a sudden blow to me.
-- May I ask what that signifies?'
-- It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow-investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.'
-- But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them.
-- 'O Akela, and ye the Free People,' he purred, 'I have no right in your assembly, but the Law of the Jungle says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new cub, the life of that cub may be bought at a price.
-- And the Law does not say who may or may not pay that price.
-- Besides, he may make bet-ter sport for you when he is grown.
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：
-- Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so ex-press it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.
-- Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- He is much addicted to overestimating his own perfections, and to undervaluing those of his rival or his enemy; a trait which may possibly be thought corroborative of the Mosaic account of the cre-ation.
-- The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considered, it may possibly be quite as well to let it stand, instead of going back to the House of Hanover for the appellation of our finest sheet of water.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
-- Certain it is, his voice The Legend of Sleepy Hollowresounded far above all the rest of the congregation; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane.
-- Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways.
-- Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.
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：
-- It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.
-- It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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