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

• 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。
• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
  星星是黑夜的珠宝，或许它们比白天里的任何事物都更胜一筹。
• Design and analysis of government perchance platform based on multi-agent system
  基于MAS的政府采购平台设计与分析
• Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with something else, too, perchance, he meditated.
  他独自一人立在那里，立在黑暗中，感到冷不可耐，也许还因别的事而浑身战栗，他又寻思起来。
• The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam.
  完成了皇宫上的飞檐，入晚回家的石工，大约是回到一个比尖屋还不如的草棚里。
• 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。
• 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”
• 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！
• "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？”
• 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。