could
美 [k?d]
英 [k?d] 
- modalv.可以;用于 can 的過(guò)去式;(禮貌地請(qǐng)求別人做事)能
- auxv.想;“can”的過(guò)去式;用于假設(shè)語(yǔ)氣的條件句;用于虛擬語(yǔ)氣的結(jié)論句
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)能夠;可能;會(huì)
英漢雙解
1. | (用于 can 的過(guò)去式)used as the past tense of ‘can’ |
| She said that she couldn't come. 她說(shuō)她來(lái)不了。 |
| I couldn't hear what they were saying. 我聽(tīng)不見(jiàn)他們?cè)谡f(shuō)些什么。 |
| Sorry, I couldn't get any more. 對(duì)不起,我無(wú)法弄到更多了。 |
2. | (詢問(wèn)是否可做某事)能,可以used to ask if you can do sth |
| Could I use your phone, please? 請(qǐng)讓我用一下你的電話可以嗎? |
| Could we stop by next week? 我們下周能過(guò)來(lái)一下嗎? |
3. | (禮貌地請(qǐng)求別人做事)能,可以used to politely ask sb to do sth for you |
| Could you babysit for us on Friday? 你星期五幫我們看一下孩子好嗎? |
4. | (表示可能性)可能used to show that sth is or might be possible |
| I could do it now, if you like. 如果你愿意的話,我現(xiàn)在就可以做這事。 |
| Don't worry─they could have just forgotten to call. 別擔(dān)心,他們可能只是忘了打電話。 |
| You couldn't have left it on the bus, could you? 你不可能把它落在公共汽車上了吧? |
| ‘Have some more cake.’ ‘Oh, I couldn't, thank you(= I'm too full) .’ “再來(lái)點(diǎn)蛋糕吧。”“謝謝你,吃不下了。” |
5. | (用于建議)可以used to suggest sth |
| We could write a letter to the director. 我們不妨給主管寫封信。 |
| You could always try his home number. 你總可以試著給他往家里打電話呀。 |
6. | (對(duì)某人未做某事表示惱怒)本來(lái)可以used to show that you are annoyed that sb did not do sth |
| They could have let me know they were going to be late! 他們要晚來(lái),也該早告訴我一聲呀! |
7. |
(強(qiáng)調(diào)感覺(jué))真想used to emphasize how strongly you want to express your feelings |
| I'm so fed up I could scream! 我煩透了,非大喊大叫不可! |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
At this point, labor could be one or two days, or even weeks, away, with your cervix continuing to open gradually over that time.
在這個(gè)時(shí)候,臨產(chǎn)可能會(huì)在一到兩天后,甚至幾個(gè)星期以后,一直到你的宮頸繼續(xù)逐漸擴(kuò)張完全。
I used to wish to be a teacher of men, and it was a great disappointment to me when I found I could not enter the Church.
我曾經(jīng)希望做人們的導(dǎo)師,但是當(dāng)我發(fā)現(xiàn)我不能進(jìn)入教會(huì)的時(shí)候,我感到了多么大的失望啊。
As long as China stayed in the war, hundreds of thousands of imperial Japanese Army soldiers could be tied down on the Asian mainland.
只要中國(guó)不退出戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng),幾十萬(wàn)日本帝國(guó)陸軍就會(huì)被牽制在亞洲大陸上。
Some of you could actually get a chance for a do-over, and you might even get it right this time.
你們中的一些實(shí)際上可以得到一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)重新開(kāi)始,甚至在這個(gè)時(shí)候你可以得到這場(chǎng)愛(ài)情。
"There's no way you can sail through it, " she said. "If it's still here in August, it could be a real problem. "
“你根本沒(méi)法穿行于其中”,她說(shuō)道,“如果八月份還是這樣的話,那便真有麻煩了。”
She was certain she could not even come close to what I had predicted, but at least she would learn something.
她肯定她不能達(dá)到、哪怕是接近我的預(yù)計(jì)目標(biāo),但她至少愿意學(xué)習(xí)一些東西。
While you seem to be the big moneymaker in the relationship, this could suggest that your partner will feel deficient in comparison.
當(dāng)你是關(guān)系內(nèi)主要負(fù)責(zé)賺錢的一方時(shí),這意味著你的另一半或許在比較之下感到不足。
Yet he gave Pareto credit for identifying it as "universal" when, it seemed, he could have taken the credit himself.
然而,當(dāng)他贊揚(yáng)帕累托確定了這一“普適性”原理時(shí),似乎是他自己應(yīng)該受祿。
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.
當(dāng)你以為我沒(méi)看見(jiàn),我看到你在乎,因此我想成為一個(gè)最棒的人。
You know, I cannot imagine that a Special Drawing Right, which has no real existence, could survive a crisis or two.
你知道,我不能想象,一個(gè)特別提款權(quán),其中并沒(méi)有真正的存在,能夠生存危機(jī)或2。
i have come to understand in a greater way, the sacrifices you have made. so i could have the best you could possible give.
我越來(lái)越明白,為了使我得到你能給到我的最好,你曾做出了多少犧牲。
However, he said the IMF could withstand the shock.
但他表示,IMF經(jīng)得起這次沖擊。
It was a bit of a joke because we thought, he believes in all this, supports the revolution, how could he be a spy?
我們想真是有點(diǎn)可笑。父親相信這里的一切,他支持革命,怎么會(huì)是間諜?
A few days later, at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year, Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Nor-combe Hill.
幾天以后,在一年之中最漫長(zhǎng)晚上的將近午夜時(shí)分,人們可以聽(tīng)到加布里埃爾·奧克在諾庫(kù)姆山上吹奏著長(zhǎng)笛。
One of the people familiar with the matter said Mr. Lee is leaving to work on his own venture. Mr. Lee could not be reached for comment.
一位知情人士稱,李開(kāi)復(fù)是離職創(chuàng)業(yè)。記者目前無(wú)法聯(lián)系到李開(kāi)復(fù)置評(píng)。
But even as he called her name he could see that there was no trace of the young woman.
但即使他左呼又喊她的名字,也沒(méi)見(jiàn)到這個(gè)年輕女人的蹤影出現(xiàn)。
I could see that the comrade who had befriended the warder wanted the sandwich, and I nodded for him to take it.
我看得出那個(gè)已與獄吏親近了些的伙伴想要那個(gè)三明治,于是我向他點(diǎn)頭應(yīng)允。
Dad used to spend hours with his binoculars looking at the ships going by and there was no more fitting tribute that we could think of. . .
爸爸過(guò)去常常透過(guò)他的望遠(yuǎn)鏡遙望過(guò)往的船只,一看就是幾個(gè)小時(shí)。因此,我們再也想不出比這更好的懷念他的方式。
If we teach small children, don't tell us that our jobs are "so cute" and that you wish you could glue and color all day long.
如果我們教小孩,請(qǐng)不要說(shuō)我們的工作是“多么有趣”而且你希望你可以整天都在涂抹膠水和填充色彩。
There in her father's apartment, she could see how much his life had been about books and the company they provided.
在她父親的公寓里,可以了解到他一生中有多少時(shí)間與書相伴相知。
How simple it would be if I could make the line fast, he thought.
他想:要是我能把釣絲系緊,那多么簡(jiǎn)單啊。
He painted with the brain, and he could not help knowing that the only painting worth anything was done with the heart.
他這才明白,他是用頭腦來(lái)畫,而凡是有些價(jià)值的作品都是用心靈畫出來(lái)的。
If he were, I said to myself, he could hardly be such a fool as to walk right into the lion's den.
要真是那樣,我尋思,他不應(yīng)該愚蠢到自投羅網(wǎng)。
If it had been discovered that part of goods were embezzled, he could have made no challenge upon me for it.
即使他發(fā)現(xiàn)一部分的貨被我盜走了,他也無(wú)法找我理論。
He decided to do all he could to produce a still higher vacuum and find out what happened then.
他決心盡一切力量造成更高的真空度,看看會(huì)有什么景象發(fā)生。
Her eyes could not reach him; and the concert being just opening, she must consent for a time to be happy in an humbler way.
她的目光見(jiàn)不到他,音樂(lè)會(huì)剛好開(kāi)始,她暫時(shí)只得將就著開(kāi)開(kāi)心。
He was restless all day, trying to think of some way he could remain in the hospital.
他終日坐臥不寧,苦苦思索可還有什么妙法兒好賴在醫(yī)院里。
She could tell him from that keen-looking aloof young body of his what was happening inside him.
她能從他那敏銳的外表、冷淡的態(tài)度揣測(cè)出其內(nèi)心世界的變幻。
Misery came a little while afterwards and began shouting at them because he said he could not see what they had done.
過(guò)了一會(huì)兒,瘟神來(lái)了,對(duì)他們大發(fā)脾氣,他說(shuō)他看不出他們干了些什么。
It was hard to believe that you could have so many complicated sensations all through your body just holding a girl's hand.
簡(jiǎn)直很難相信,光是握著一個(gè)姑娘的手就能使你全身有這許多復(fù)雜的感覺(jué)。
What to do with them I did not know, but I secured them as well as I could, and looked up the lodgings and went to him.
怎樣處理這些東西呢,我不知道,我只好盡力把這些東西收拾好,把房子鎖起,到他那里去。
Next day new steps were to be taken; my plans could no longer be confined to my own breast.
第二天要采取新的步驟了,我的計(jì)劃不能再藏在我自己的心里。
Yet I know that day I could openly have told my mother how much I love her.
然而那天我曉得,我可以無(wú)所顧忌地告訴我媽,我多么地愛(ài)她。
The most they could have done was to lock Mr. Hatch up while he cooled off for a few days, or refine him a little something.
他們至多把哈奇關(guān)上幾天,讓他冷靜下來(lái),或是罰他幾個(gè)錢。
Two or three of us could stroll together to the water's edge, but nothing like a target, we were told, must be presented.
他們告訴我們,我們可以三三兩兩地走到河邊,但不能成群結(jié)隊(duì),以免露出目標(biāo)。
When he started telling everybody about the time I fell down in the middle of the love scene in the school play, I could have died.
當(dāng)他告訴大家說(shuō),我在學(xué)校里演出的那場(chǎng)愛(ài)情劇中摔了一跤時(shí),我真窘得要命。
All the way out to Biddlemeier's Inn he tried to talk as an old friend, but he could not pierce the wall of her words.
在去比德?tīng)柮穪?/c>飯店的路上,他想象老朋友那樣聊聊,但是穿不透她滔滔不絕的語(yǔ)言的墻壁。
On seeing this, I thought he began to look a little queer, so I turned it off as well as I could.
見(jiàn)此情景,我覺(jué)得他的臉色不大對(duì)頭,就盡量把這件事情岔開(kāi)。
Without a word I seized the bottle by the neck and hit him over the head with it as hard as I could.
我二話沒(méi)說(shuō),一把攥住瓶頸,使出全身氣力,狠狠地砸在他的頭上。
No other man could be the occasion of such delightful aerial building as she had been enjoying for the last six month.
六個(gè)月以來(lái)她所享受的歡樂(lè)只是海市蜃樓,已一去不復(fù)返,任何別的男子都不能代替它。
I were a good enough guy maybe I could have been a good painter.
要是我當(dāng)時(shí)是個(gè)好小伙子的話,我可能也是個(gè)有所成就的畫家了。
"I should have thought you could stand a bit of good-natured chaff by now, " he replied.
他說(shuō):“我以為你至今為止能受得了出于善意的小小戲弄。”
Still he could not help noticing what was in the air, and feeling some of its influence in his bones.
盡管如此,他也不能不注意到空中出現(xiàn)的情況,骨子里難免受到感染。
Would not his love, his tender care, and the advantages he could bestow upon her make her forget the question of age?
他的愛(ài),他的一份真情,他可以給她的一切好處,難道不能使她忘掉年齡的問(wèn)題嗎?
If I had been placed in a position to manage great affairs, I would have shown what I could do.
倘若我處在可以做出偉大事業(yè)的位置上,我會(huì)表明我能夠做什么。
As if he could right the wrongs of the past by his own personal dedication to the cause.
好象通過(guò)把他個(gè)人奉獻(xiàn)給這個(gè)事業(yè),就能糾正過(guò)去所犯的錯(cuò)誤。
Ursula flushed a little at the mild impertinence of this question, and yet she could not definitely take offence.
對(duì)于這個(gè)和緩而魯莽的問(wèn)題,厄香拉稍微臉紅了一下,但是她無(wú)法感到惱火。
If only there were harbours which could nourish great armies, here was the front on which to strike.
只要我們獲得能夠容納龐大軍隊(duì)的港口,這里就是展開(kāi)攻勢(shì)的前線。
You could see that the last part of the report had just been grafted on as an afterthought.
你可以看出,這份報(bào)告的最后部分像是事后想起加上去的。
Before I could stir in the matter, the man who had followed me across the courtyard crowded in.
我還來(lái)不及動(dòng)手干什么,那些跟著我穿過(guò)院子的人就沖了進(jìn)來(lái)。
And then the efficiency of the units that you're using, with which you capture the solar energy could be solar cells.
然后是你在用的單位的效率,用這來(lái)捕捉,太陽(yáng)能的太陽(yáng)電池。
Then he walked out of the store with the pair of pants and disappeared before the surprised store owner could think of anything to say.
說(shuō)完,他就帶著那條褲子走出店門不見(jiàn)了人影,而這位驚訝不已的主人還沒(méi)有想出如何回答。
Oddsseem to me pretty good that you could also get all the benefits out of a really tight stamp-collecting club.
這件事對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)看起來(lái)非常之好,你同樣可以從一家密切的集郵俱樂(lè)部中獲得最大的快樂(lè)。
Shelly had prepared carefully for her biology examination so that she could be sure of passing it on her first attempt.
雪莉對(duì)生物考試準(zhǔn)備得很認(rèn)真,因此她有信心一次就通過(guò)。
A new social stock exchange could radically change this, and only companies with a clearly defined social purpose would be allowed to list.
一種新的社會(huì)型證交所將極大地改變著這種情況,只有明確定義其社會(huì)目標(biāo)的公司才會(huì)被允許上市。
Now you tell her to her face that you could have stayed to meet her and you would not.
現(xiàn)在你沖著她的臉告訴她你能留在這見(jiàn)她而你卻不那樣做。
I imagined that she did it so that Kylie could avoid problems with her parents.
我想她這么做是為了避免凱麗和她的父母之間產(chǎn)生矛盾。
Her eyes, all that could be seen, gleamed as she revelled in a new-found freedom.
我們只能看得到她的眼睛,閃閃發(fā)光,沉浸在一種新發(fā)現(xiàn)的自由中。
He took his goals well and he could have had more but his overall performance was good.
他進(jìn)了球,本來(lái)還能進(jìn)更多的。但這已經(jīng)很好了。
It could have been Credit Crunch Round Two. There was bound to be relief at avoiding that.
而可能會(huì)由此而來(lái)的第二輪信貸緊縮就必定會(huì)導(dǎo)致避免緊縮發(fā)生的救援行動(dòng)。
Hi Dr. Zhao, it was great to see you at the USCAP meeting and I wish I could have more time to talk to you.
趙博士,很高興在USCAP年會(huì)上見(jiàn)到你,很想有更多的時(shí)間和你交流。
I don't think you keep the kitchen clean enough and I'm very worried that this could cause our customers to get sick.
我認(rèn)為你把廚房維持得不夠干凈,我很擔(dān)心這會(huì)讓我們的客人生病。
Katie said: 'One day I got the idea to do a little Halloween design on my lips, just to see if I could do it.
凱蒂說(shuō):“有一天我突然有了一個(gè)想法,就是在我的嘴唇上設(shè)計(jì)出一個(gè)萬(wàn)圣節(jié)主題的圖案,只是想看看我是否能做到。”
When V-Day met her, we asked her how we could support her and she said, "Well, if you got me a Jeep, I could get around a lot faster. "
當(dāng)V日組織接觸到她,問(wèn)她我們能提供什么幫助的時(shí)候她說(shuō):“好吧,如果你們能幫我弄來(lái)一臺(tái)吉普車,我能更快地去到不同地方。”
His mother sometimes drove him to bridal stores so he could make sketches of the gowns in the windows.
于是母親時(shí)常叫他去婚紗商店,看著櫥窗里的禮服畫下草圖。
In the early mornings, if I wore long shirts and draped my head in a towel, I could walk along this beach without scaring people.
清晨,我穿上長(zhǎng)袖衫,頭上蒙住毛巾之后,就可以沿著這海邊散步,而不會(huì)嚇著別人。
"I'm a foreigner" I said , then he made it a little slow , but what worse was that i still could not understand it.
“我是個(gè)外國(guó)人,”我說(shuō)。于是他說(shuō)得慢了,可我還是聽(tīng)不懂。
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
我因那光的榮耀,不能看見(jiàn),同行的人,就拉著我手進(jìn)了大馬士革。
If it's ok with you, I guess I could put up with it.
如果你覺(jué)得這沒(méi)有問(wèn)題的話,我想我亦能忍受它。
My parents were never home anyway and I did not like to be at home where I could hear the walls talking of pain.
不管怎么說(shuō),反正父母也經(jīng)常不在家,而我也不愿在家里被痛苦和憂傷籠罩。
You never could suppose from her countenance what pangs of humiliation she might be enduring inwardly.
她心里的委屈,在臉上是一點(diǎn)兒也看不出來(lái)的。
He began to think that she had not died but that she was going to, unless he could find some way to prevent it.
漸漸地他就認(rèn)為她并沒(méi)有死,可他要是想不出法子加以挽救的話,眼看她是死定了。
With your good sense, you could be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others!
憑你這樣一個(gè)聰明人,竟會(huì)忠厚到看不出別人的愚蠢和無(wú)聊!
For, in good truth, you seem to turn over the pages of my past life far better than I could do myself.
因?yàn)?/c>說(shuō)老實(shí)話,你對(duì)于我的生活看得比我自己還更清楚。
What could the Colonel have to say to him in these fading moments?
上校究竟有什么事要在彌留之際對(duì)他講呢?
Who could have thought that such a pretty rose could grow in a porter's lodge, or bloom in that dismal old flower-pot of a Shepherd's Inn?
誰(shuí)能想到,這么一朵鮮花卻生長(zhǎng)在看門人的小屋子里,在牧羊人草屋這只陰沉破舊的花盆里也能開(kāi)出這么漂亮的花朵!
She could not speak, but hatred and disgust burned in her eyes as she stared at him fiercely.
當(dāng)時(shí)她說(shuō)不出話來(lái),只拿一雙充滿著憎恨和嫌惡的眼睛對(duì)他瞠視著。
The purpose of his visit, as he emphasized, was to discuss how Italy could take the field against Germany.
正如他所強(qiáng)調(diào)的,他的來(lái)訪目的,本是討論意大利怎樣才能興師反抗德國(guó)。
Actors West had the smell of professionalism. Toby could sense it the moment he walked in the door.
西部演員學(xué)校有點(diǎn)專業(yè)性氣氛,托比一進(jìn)門就覺(jué)察到了這一點(diǎn)。
Polly knew that she was being watched but still her mother's persistent silence could not be misunderstood.
波莉知道自己受到監(jiān)視,即使母親始終保持沉默,她的用意還是不言而喻的。