| 正面 | 436.perhaps 英 [pə'hæps]美 [pɚ'hæps]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、sug- "up" + gest- "bring, carry".2、含义：suggest, supply, bring up.3、最初的字面含义为：heap up, build. 后来演化、引申为：bring forward or bring up an idea, proposal.4、but original English notion of "evil prompting" is preserved in suggestive (1630s, though the indecent aspect did not emerge until 1888).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 例句： 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。 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. perhapsperhaps: [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, happyperhaps (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 which now have been superseded by this word.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." |