雅思词汇【may】应用

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发布时间:2021-12-28 13:01:01

 

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。

 

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero.

-- Nothing has been too small to escape him, and you may be sure that if Charles Strickland left a laundry bill unpaid it will be given you in extenso, and if he forebore to return a borrowed half-crown no detail of the transaction will be omitted.

-- Chapter IIWhen so much has been written about Charles Strickland, it may seem unnecessary that I should write more.

 

儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest?

-- The balloon, inflated on the great square of Richmond, was ready to depart on the first abatement of the wind, and, as may be supposed, the impatience among the besieged to see the storm moderate was very great.

-- Let us have patience, and at low water it is possible we may find a fordable passage."

-- In three hours we will attempt the passage, and once on the other side, we will try to get out of this scrape, and I hope may find the captain."

-- "Well, my boy," said he to Herbert, "if I don't know the name of these trees, at any rate I reckon that we may call them 'burning wood,' and just now that's the chief thing we want."

 

查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- 'But are you not fearful,' said I, 'that you may misunderstand a charge so tender?

-- I walked past the house, and took several turns in the street, with that kind of hesitation which is natural to a man who is conscious that the visit he is about to pay is unexpected, and may not be very acceptable.

-- I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.

-- There's a friend of mine waiting outside, and as it seems that I may have to wait some time, I'll call him in, with your leave.'

-- cried Mr Swiveller, tapping his nose, 'a word to the wise is sufficient for them we may be good and happy without riches, Fred.

 

列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- It may be that in the depth of his soul there was already a mischievous intention toward Katiousha, prompted by his now unbridled animal ego, but he was not aware of it, he merely desired to visit those places in which he lived so happily, and see his somewhat queer, but amiable and good-natured, aunts, who always surrounded the atmosphere around him with love and admiration, and also to see the lovely Katiousha, of whom he had such pleasant recollections.

-- "The gentlemen of the jury may now view the exhibits," said the justiciary.

-- "Gentlemen of the jury, the case which is now to be submitted to your consideration," he began his speech, prepared while the indictment and reports were being read, "is a characteristic crime, if I may so express myself."

-- "Here is before you, gentlemen of the jury, a crime characteristic, if I may so express myself, of the end of our century, bearing, as it were, all the specific features of the first symptoms of decomposition, to which those elements of our society, which are exposed, as it were, to the more scorching rays of that process, are subject."

-- Nekhludoff wanted to get through the most difficult part, and therefore immediately added: "I take all expenses on myself, whatever they may be," he said, blushing.

 

赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- "Of course a solid body may exist.

-- That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others.

-- He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?"

-- I may have been stunned for a moment.

-- I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop.

 

刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Oh!I do so wish I could see that bit!I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire.

 

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