perchance
pronunciation
UK [pəˈtʃɑ:ns]
US [pərˈtʃæns]
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- adv.
- 偶然,恐怕
Word Origin
perchance 也许,可能
来自拉丁语per,通过,凭借,chance,机会。引申词义也许,可能。
Synonym
Example
- 1. It is our children 's children who may perchance be really free .
- 我们孩子的孩子可能还会遇到真正的自由。
- 2. All summer , and far into the autumn , perchance , you unconsciously went by the newspapers and the news , and now you find it was because the morning and the evening were full of news to you .
- 整个夏季,直到深秋,你偶然无意识地从报纸和新闻身边走过,现在你会发现那是因为从早到晚你的身边都是新闻。
- 3. Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me , that I shall , on compulsion , consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness .
- 但明天,或许幻想就会破灭,那时,我将不得不把这不值一提的财富当作至高无上的幸福。
- 4. The complaint of a human heart , sorrow-laden , perchance guilty , telling its secret , whether of guilt or sorrow , to the great heart of mankind ;
- 那是一颗人心的哀怨,悲痛地或许是负疚地向人类的伟大胸怀诉说着深藏的秘密,不管是罪孽还是悲伤;
- 5. The great dead are beyond our physical reach , and the great living are usually almost as inaccessible ; as for our personal friends and acquaintances , we cannot always see them . Perchance they are asleep , or away on a journey .
- 已故的伟人是我们无法亲身接触的,而活着的伟人通常几乎也是同样地无法接近的,至于我们个人的朋友和熟人,我们也不能经常看见他们,他们或许已经就寝,或许已经出门旅行去了。
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