perhaps
英 [pə'hæps]
美 [pɚ'hæps]
- adv. 或许；（表示不确定）也许；（用于粗略的估计）或许；（表示勉强同意或其实不赞成）也许；可能
- n. 假定；猜想；未定之事
CET4 TEM4 考 研 CET6
perhaps 也许，可能来自拉丁语per,凭借，依靠，hap,机会，运气，词源同happy,happen.
- 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 which now have been superseded by this word.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.
- 1. The horrors he experienced are imprinted, perhaps indelibly, in his brain.
- 他经历的恐怖事件在他脑海中刻下了深深的，或许是难以磨灭的印记。
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- 2. He was not perhaps physically the strongest in the class.
- 他可能不是全班身体最壮的。
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- 3. Perhaps he'd followed her suggestion of a stroll to the river.
- 也许他已经听从了她的建议去河边散步了。
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- 4. Perhaps you would like to pay a visit to London.
- 也许，您乐意去游览一下伦敦。
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- 5. Andy's face paled with disappointment; perhaps with anger as well.
- 安迪的脸色由于失望而变得苍白，也许还掺杂着气愤。
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