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  1. Perhaps I am wrong, but I think she is near forty.
    也许我错了，但是我想她快四十岁了。
  2. Such a mistake would perhaps lead to disastrous consequences.
    这样一种错误可能导致灾难性的后果。


perhaps
[ adv ]
by chance
<adv.all>
perhaps she will call tomorrowwe may possibly run into them at the concert
it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time


Perhaps \Per*haps"\, adv. [Per + hap chance.]
By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.

And pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may
be forgiven thee. --Acts viii.
22.

May \May\ (m[=a]), v. [imp. {Might} (m[imac]t)] [AS. pres.
m[ae]g I am able, pret. meahte, mihte; akin to D. mogen, G.
m["o]gen, OHG. mugan, magan, Icel. mega, Goth. magan, Russ.
moche. [root]103. Cf. {Dismay}, {Main} strength, {Might}. The
old imp. mought is obsolete, except as a provincial word.]
An auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by
expressing:
(a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener
expressed by {can}.

How may a man, said he, with idle speech,
Be won to spoil the castle of his health!
--Spenser.

For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what
he may do as just, and what he may do as possible.
--Bacon.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: ``It might have been.''
--Whittier.
(b) Liberty; permission; allowance.

Thou mayst be no longer steward. --Luke xvi. 2.
(c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability.

Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance
Some general maxims, or be right by chance. --Pope.
(d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a
question or remark.

How old may Phillis be, you ask. --Prior.
(e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction,
and the like. ``May you live happily.'' --Dryden.

{May be}, & {It may be}, are used as equivalent to
{possibly}, {perhaps}, {maybe}, {by chance},
{peradventure}. See 1st {Maybe}.

  1. Dickens's Hard Times is this year's choice, perhaps an appropriate title for an investment manager at the end of a deep recession.
  2. "This would perhaps speed any tendency toward consolidation in the Southeast and nationwide," said Richard Stillinger, senior vice president of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
  3. Perhaps because of its celebrity community, perhaps for its laid-back nature, Malibu, like other suburbs of the movie industry, gets no respect.
  4. But the tens of thousands of students have succeeded in breaking through the accepted barriers on political discourse and have altered, perhaps permanently, the terms in which Chinese speak of their leaders.
  5. "I deal with a lot of real world things here that perhaps the clergy who have been clergy for their whole careers don't see," he said.
  6. Since Midas, perhaps since Adam, the consequences of risky business have been spurned to the peril of those who dare to pursue happiness a little too voraciously.
  7. Some official sources estimated that tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, were left homeless in Bangladesh.
  8. They explained how the selling of assets could drive down and perhaps wipe out New York's deficit.
  9. The court ends the term with the liberals perhaps understandably feeling the pressure of minority status. Still, there can be no excuse for gamesmanship in constitutional law.
  10. Repayment would be based on, perhaps, commodity prices or a general economic growth target.
  11. Ignatenko quoted Gorbachev as saying his next meeting with John Paul would "perhaps, or probably, be in the USSR." Gorbachev was accompanied to the Vatican by his wife Raisa, who wore a gray suit.
  12. A survey I have conducted shows that this view is not remarkably widespread - largely, perhaps, because Belgium is a kingdom. Nevertheless, the arrest of Pineau-Valencienne does lead to consideration of another astounding coincidence.
  13. Partly, perhaps, because Adam Smith, more than 200 years ago, was so disarmingly honest about it.
  14. He added that "just as our investment managers are taking a contrarian view and perhaps going into the market, so our oil people expect the price of oil to go down."
  15. Another mummy had a fractured right forearm, "perhaps from warding off a blow," Dr. Marx speculates.
  16. "Senatorial Privilege" has sold more than 70,000 copies despite this major-media neglect, or perhaps because of it.
  17. He recalled the flower episode a few days ago, and briefly dwelt on its meaning in his life, and perhaps in the lives of would-be entrepreneurs.
  18. "I would characterize it as perhaps a distorted view of nuclear performance that is designed to create fear and apprehension among the public," he said.
  19. Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research Inc. in Phoenix, predicted IBM might announce plans to eliminate about 20,000 jobs, paying for the streamlining program with a charge of perhaps more than $1 billion against fourth-quarter earnings.
  20. Another job for the US secretary of state, Mr James Baker, perhaps? If you are playing Dodge The Demagogues with more and more desperation and less and less success you might think of turning to radio.
  21. It unveiled the Mustang, marking perhaps the zenith of the U.S. auto industry.
  22. In the South, he said, the disease probably will remain uncommon, perhaps because ticks there feed on lizards, which are poor reservoirs for the bugs.
  23. The two flocks, perhaps totaling fewer than 50 birds, leave the Ob River Valley in Soviet Siberia in September or October, just as it is starts snowing.
  24. Diplomats described a massive deployment of troops _ perhaps more than 50,000 _ to maintain tense order in the southwest along the border with Iraq.
  25. For some aged 80, perhaps having to list only 20 birthdays is a joy.
  26. His enemies are at the gates, perhaps within them, and he can't dither too much longer before casting his lot.
  27. He is perhaps best known for his definitive introduction to Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan."
  28. Then later I got threatening phone calls." But tearing down the massive granite museum would be expensive, to the tune of perhaps $200 million.
  29. In real estate, the fund will shun downtown "trophy" buildings in favor of buying less-visible properties, perhaps from banks and thrifts paring their portfolios.
  30. Most scientists believe the glacial age, which lasted until about 10,000 years ago, was brought about by a gradual global cooling, perhaps triggered by a movement of the continents that blocked the exchange of warm water between oceans at the equator.
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