perhaps
英[p?'h?ps]
美[p?'h?ps]
- adv. 或許；（表示不確定）也許；（用于粗略的估計）或許；（表示勉強同意或其實不贊成）也許；可能
- n. 假定；猜想；未定之事
詞態變化
復數:?perhapses;
中文詞源
perhaps 也許，可能
來自拉丁語per,憑借，依靠，hap,機會，運氣，詞源同happy,happen.
英文詞源
- perhaps
- perhaps: [16] The phrase by hap or by haps ‘by chance’ originated in the 14th century (hap ‘chance’, a borrowing from Old Norse, now survives in the derived happen). In the 16th century it was transformed into perhaps on the model of perchance [14] and the now obsolete percase [14], both borrowings from Anglo- Norman containing per ‘by’.
=> happen, happy - perhaps (adv.)
- 1520s, formed from Middle English per, par "by, through" (see per-) + plural of hap "chance" (see happen), on model of peradventure, perchance, etc. which now have been superseded by this word. Perhappons "possibly, by chance" is recorded from late 15c.
雙語例句
- 1. The horrors he experienced are imprinted, perhaps indelibly, in his brain.
- 他經歷的恐怖事件在他腦海中刻下了深深的，或許是難以磨滅的印記。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was not perhaps physically the strongest in the class.
- 他可能不是全班身體最壯的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Perhaps he'd followed her suggestion of a stroll to the river.
- 也許他已經聽從了她的建議去河邊散步了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Perhaps you would like to pay a visit to London.
- 也許，您樂意去游覽一下倫敦。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Andy's face paled with disappointment; perhaps with anger as well.
- 安迪的臉色由于失望而變得蒼白，也許還摻雜著氣憤。
來自柯林斯例句