perchance

英 [pəˈtʃɑːns]

美 [pərˈtʃæns]

adv.  也许; 可能

过去式：perchanced　

BNC.36366 / COCA.31828

牛津词典

adv.

• 也许；可能
  perhaps

柯林斯词典

• 可能；也许
  Perchancemeansperhaps.

双语例句

• The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.
  一本书，能解释我们的奇迹，又能启发新的奇迹，这本书就为我们而存在了。
• Or, perchance, his sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music, that swelled heavenward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave.
  或者，也许是，他的敏感的气质受到了那向天升腾并把他托着飞升的响亮而尖利的音乐的鼓舞。
• So far as concerns the overthrow or preservation of his fair fame and his earthly state, and perchance his life, he is in thy hands.
  至于他的良好的名声和他在世间的地位，或许还有他的生命，予取予夺都在你的掌握之中。
• He only had one argument not to kill himself: "To sleep, perchance to dream, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil might give us pause."
  他只有一个不自杀的理由：，“入睡，偶尔作梦，因为在沉睡中，什么梦都会出现，我们可以从中暂时摆脱尘世的烦恼”
• Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth.
  再没有什么像这一个躺卧在大地表面的湖沼这样美，这样纯洁，同时又这样大。
• They will slink back to their kennels in disgrace, or perchance run wild and strike a league with the wolf and the fox.
  它们丢脸地偷偷溜进他们的狗棚，也许变得狂野起来，和狼或狐狸赛了个三英里的跑。
• The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually;
  也许有些野蛮国家的风俗，值得我们学一学，大有益处，因为他们至少还仿佛每年要蜕一次皮；
• Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him;
  某人也许病得如此之重，连丧钟为他而鸣都不知道；
• Yet perchance the first who came to this well have left some trace of their footsteps.
  第一个到这个湖边来的人们可能留下过他们的足迹。
• "Did you?" Jaime settled on a camp stool." From the man himself, perchance?"
  “是听说吗？”詹姆找了张凳子坐下来，“恐怕是从他本人那里吧？”