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

• He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, alas!
  他用同样的姿势呆到天明，在床上，上身扑在两膝上，被巨大的命运所压服，也许被压垮了，唉！
• On the threshold she paused turned partly round for perchance the idea of entering alone and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life, was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear.
  她在门限处停下了脚步，还侧转了身体，或许，只身一人走进以往过着提心吊胆生活、如今已经面貌全非的家，连她都受不了那种阴森凄凉的劲头。
• Interpreting Hester Prynne's deportment as an appeal of this nature, society was inclined to show its former victim a more benign countenance than she cared to be favoured with, or, perchance, than she deserved.
  由于社会把海丝特白兰的举止解释成这类性质的吁请，因此反倒宁可对其原先的牺牲品，显示出一种比她所乐于接受的、或者说比她实际应得的更加宽厚的态度。
• Take heed how thou deniest to him-who, perchance, hath not the courage to grasp it for himself-the bitter, but wholesome, cup that is now presented to thy lips!
  现在呈献到你唇边的那杯辛辣而有益的苦酒，那人或许缺乏勇气去接过来端给自己，可我要提请你注意，不要阻止他去接受吧！
• 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。
• Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see them closer at hand.
  读者如果在比较近的地方去看这两个人，那可能是认识他们的。
• 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”
• The secret to his never-ending energy, perchance?
  这可能是他永不停止的能量秘密？
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
  去睡：也许会做梦吧？这就不妙了；
• Perils of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance.
  另一种危险，也不见得小，在等待着他们。