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

• To sleep& perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub!
  酣然睡去&也许会做梦；唉，那也是一种磨难！
• 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。
• Is there perchance a giant outside who wants to carry thee away?
  该不是门外有个巨人要把你抓走吧？
• 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”
• 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。
• To see what kind of earth that is on which you have a house and garden somewhere, perchance!
  或许，你竟能看看那在上面某处建房和花园的地球是个什么东西！
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。