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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the solution of the problem submitted to me may modify the form of the dilemma.
-- Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced; which is just within the bounds of possibility."
-- "Besides," thought I, "all roads lead back to Europe; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me towards the coast of France.
-- This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Europe (for my particular benefit), and I will not bring back less than half a yard of his ivory halberd to the Museum of Natural History."
-- May I be excused for saying that I was forty years old?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mother," called Diana, a handsome girl a little older than Winifred, "I may have wine, mayn't I?"
-- "Yes, you may have wine," replied the mother automatically, for she was perfectly indifferent to the question.
-- "A race may have its commercial aspect," he said.
-- If the national crown-piece is an old hat, then the thieving gent may have it."
-- Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
-- Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would be acquaintance, to those which actuate me.
-- Then it flashed on me 'The clown at my elbow, who is drinking his tea out of a basin and eating his broad with unwashed hands, may be her husband: Heathcliff junior, of course.
-- The last reflection may seem conceited; it was not.
-- Do point out some landmarks by which I may know my way home: I have no more idea how to get there than you would have how to get to London!
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
-- That would be nonsense 'The Red Queen shook her head, 'You may call it "nonsense" if you like,' she said, 'but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!'
-- The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, 'You may rest a little now.'
-- 'I think I'll go down the other way,' she said after a pause: 'and perhaps I may visit the elephants later on.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙TO THE HESITATING PURCHASERIf sailor tales to sailor tunes,Storm and adventure, heat and cold,If schooners, islands, and maroons,And buccaneers, and buried gold,And all the old romance, retoldExactly in the ancient way,Can please, as me they pleased of old,The wiser youngsters of today:茫聙聙 So be it, and fall on!If not,If studious youth no longer crave,His ancient appetites forgot,Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,Or Cooper of the wood and wave:So be it, also!And may IAnd all my pirates share the graveWhere these and their creations lie!
-- "And now, sir," continued the doctor, "since I now know there's such a fellow in my district, you may count I'll have an eye upon you day and night.
-- I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.
-- You may see the notch on the lower side of the frame to this day.
-- He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England and God bless King George! where or in what part of this country he may now be?"
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