可能中英惯用例句:
  • 此间大多数经济学家说，加利福尼亚的经济衰退尚未度过难关。预计经济复苏最早将在1995年，在以前可能恶化。
    Most economists here say that California's economic slump has not bottomed out and that it may grow worse before the earliest projected recovery in1995.
  • 我也听见那枞树枝子重复着那戏弄人的声音，而且也知道这是什么原因。可是它使我太烦了，因此我决定，如果可能的话，把这声音止住。
    I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to--silence it, if possible;
  • 不可能成功。
    Success is bound not to.
  • 很多人对此可能会觉得可笑，但是我对烟花女子总是无限宽容的，甚至也不想为这种宽容态度与人争辩。
    All this will perhaps seem absurd to many people, but I have a boundless forbearance towards courtesans which I shall not even trouble to enlarge upon here.
  • 这件事有可能吗？
    Is it within the bounds of probability?
  • 是可能[不可能]的
    Be within [out of] the bounds [range] of possibility...
  • 他还会想起，由于陆军统帅的叛变，小波旁官邸也是全部涂上了黄色，索瓦尔说:“黄色毕竟质地很优良，又是那样受推崇，涂上了，上百年都不可能褪色。”
    he would recall the Hotel du Petit-Bourbon, all smeared thus, on account of the constable's treason. "Yellow,after all, of so good a quality," said Sauval, "and so well recommended, that more than a century has not yet caused it to lose its color."
  • 从理论上说，这样可以消除疾病传播的可能性，无论是来自牛血红蛋白的疯牛病或人血中感染的新型肝炎病。
    In theory, that should eliminate the possibility of disease transmission, whether of madcow disease from bovine hemoglobin or a suspected new strain of hepatitis from human products.
  • 公司间的联合抵制可能会有一定作用，为了要求更短的保护期限，也许并不需要签订协议。
    A boycott of companies that do not sign on to a pledge to endorse a shorter term could work.
  • 由于不响应1936年抵制奥运会的号召，美国和其他西方民主国家错过了一次表态的机会，否则(以当时观察家之见)可能会迫使希特勒三思而后行，从而使全世界反对纳粹独裁统治的运动得到加强。
    Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that some observers at the time claimed-might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny.
  • 别突然刹车，后面的那辆车可能会撞着你车的。
    Don't brake suddenly, the car behind might crash into you.
  • 别突然刹车，后面的那辆车可能会撞着你车的。
    Do not brake suddenly, the car behind may crash into you.
  • 假如你能勇敢地抗比你强大得多的对手，你的事迹有可能在晚间的新闻中占一席之地。
    If you struggle bravely against overwhelming odds, you're liable to end up on the evening news.
  • 他是一个胆小的男孩，他不可能和任何人吵架。
    He is a timid boy; it's impossible for him to brawl with anyone.
  • 巴西很有可能赢得世界杯。
    It's more than likely Brazil will win the World Cup.
  • 在这么大的压力下他可能会崩溃。
    He may break up under all this pressure.
  • 他们要求２５％的押金以补偿游人可能造成的任何损坏。
    They ask for a 25% deposit and hold it against breakage's cause by the visitor.
  • 交流障碍很可能成为未来公司致命的问题。
    Communications breakdown may well become a fatal corporate disease.
  • 明年可能有所突破；任何事都有可能；注意可能产生的后果。
    a breakthrough may be possible next year; anything is possible; warned of possible consequences.
  • 可能有人会怀疑，他因某种程度的缺乏教养而傲慢无礼；
    Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride;
  • 昨天国防部长切尼和鲍威尔将军的简报发人深省。二人都警告说死亡将继续增加。他们警告说萨达姆可能暗藏惊人之笔。
    Yesterday's briefing by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell was sobering. Both man warned that the death toll will continue to rise. They warned that Saddam Hussein may have surprises up his sleeve.
  • 美国国务卿曾经在几天前向安理会展示了情报部门搜集的新证据，证明伊拉克为了准备迎接检查而对一些地区进行了清理，转移了很多关于被禁止的武器计划的证据，也就是关于在照片中被分析家认为是正在一个军火库清理化学污染物的卡车，对此我想说明一下，那个地区是一个公开的地区，当然，也是伊拉克预计我们要进行检查的地点，我要说明的是，这两张卫星照片相隔了几个星期，报告中所谓的转移武器的行动很有可能只是例行公事，是为了迎接即将到来的检查所做的正常工作而已。
    The presentation of intelligence information by the US Secretary of State suggested that Iraq had prepared for inspections by cleaning up sites and removing evidence of proscribed weapons programmes. I would like to comment only on one case, which we are familiar with, namely, the trucks identified by analysts as being for chemical decontamination at a munitions depot. This was a declared site, and it was certainly one of the sites Iraq would have expected us to inspect. We have noted that the two satellite images of the site were taken several weeks apart. The reported movement of munitions at the site could just as easily have been a routine activity as a movement of proscribed munitions in anticipation of imminent inspection. Our reservation on this point does not detract from our appreciation of the briefing.
  • 外国人可能会讥笑英国人在晴朗的早晨穿着雨衣，拿着雨伞出门。
    The foreigner may laugh when he sees the English setting forth on a brilliantly sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella.
  • 杰瑞一个人留在了黑暗里的雾中。此刻他下了马，让他那疲惫不堪的马轻松轻松，也擦擦自己脸上的泥水，再把帽檐上的水分甩掉--帽檐里可能装上了半加仑水。
    Jerry, left alone in the mist and darkness, dismounted meanwhile, not only to ease his spent horse, but to wipe the mud from his face, and shake the wet out of his hat-brim, which might be capable of holding about half a gallon.
  • 如果不很快把他们带上地面,他们可能要丧生。
    If they are not brought to the surface soon they may lose their lives.
  • 在雨中工作很长时间可能使人发高烧。
    Working out in the rain for a long time may bring on a fever.
  • 助选人员说，根据他私人的民意测验，他可能在选举团投票时得到几乎压倒台性的胜利，充满信心的布什对他的敌对手仍不放松。
    With aides saying his private polls showed he may be on the brink of an electoral-vote landslide, the confident Bush did not let up on his rival.
  • 见过这样的耐克运动鞋吗？也许是湿的，可能还有点咸，而且要凑成一双还有点困难。不过，世界上也许再也找不着比这更便宜的耐克运动鞋了。
    They may be wet, even a bit briny, and it might be hard to find a matching pair, but you won't find Nike Inc. shoes cheaper anywhere.
  • 你根本不可能在一个小时内驱车从伦敦到达布里斯托尔。
    Fat chance you have of driving from London to Bristol in under an hour.
  • 你毫无可能在一个小时内驱车从伦敦到达布里斯托尔。
    You've no earthly chance of driving form London to Bristol in under an hour.
  • 你毫无可能在一个小时内驱车从伦敦抵达布里斯托尔。
    You haven't a ghost of a chance of driving from London to Bristol in under an hour.
  • 有些人可能认为无线电广播在广播事业中稍逊一筹。
    Some people may regard radio as the poor relation of broadcasting.