may

may

美 [me?] 　英 [me?]

• modalv.可能；（轉折前所述情況屬實）也許；（征求同意或表示允許）可以
• n.山楂花

詞形變化

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英漢雙解

習慣用語

英漢解釋

英英解釋

例句

Firms that provide these things may be prepared to chip in towards the cost of the music service in return for customer loyalty.

銷售以上產品的公司或許可以考慮插手音樂服務的定價以報答消費者的信任。

Now, a new study coming out in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology suggests that sex with your ex may not be as bad as you think.

最近在《社會與臨床心理學》雜志中發表的新研究表明，和前任發生性關系并沒有你想的那么糟糕。

Emilia. If he say so, may his pernicious soul Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart: She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.

愛米利婭要是他果然說了這樣的話，愿他惡毒的靈魂每天一分一寸地糜爛！他全然胡說；她對于她的最卑鄙的男人是太癡心了。

For all of you sitting at a coffee shop all day, using its unsecured wireless network, Google may have saved you some serious headaches.

如果你喜歡坐在咖啡館里用不太安全的無線網絡上網，Google此舉可能讓你省去了一些煩惱。

Children are usually easy to move, and the nurse may be able to simply raise a child to the sitting position.

兒童通常容易移動，護士也許能夠輕易地將兒童扶至坐位。

Unilateral osseous reconstruction of a dentate mandible after tumor ablation may be restored with implants and a removable partial denture.

單側骨重建一個齒狀頜骨腫瘤切除后可能會恢復種植體和可摘局部義齒。

I do not know whether the right honorable gentleman may not yet possess some of his old prejudices on the subject.

我不知道這位可敬的議員對這個問題會不會還保留原有的一些偏見。

Although you are focusing on a single moment in the text, you may draw on what you know about the author and his or her choices elsewhere.

你雖然把焦點放在文本的某一剎那，但可以發揮你所知道的作者資料，還有作者在其他地方選擇描述的特定時刻。

SHE MEANS: I may be blowing this out of proportion, but I'm overwhelmed and, yes, I'm taking it out on you.

她的意思是：我可能在這個時候爆發了，但是我已經不知所措了，是的，我請你出去。

Finally, we may note that the guilt of an offender is usually held to decrease with extenuating circumstances.

最后，我們可以記住行為人的罪過可能因為可恕的環境而通常被減輕。

I think you may have understood. What I meant was that I accept your suggestion completely.

我想你們可能誤解了，我的意思是我完全接受你們的建議。

They do have tools to try to ward off deflation, and should use them. However, they may not be able to live up to expectations.

他們有工具試圖抵御通縮，也確實應該使用它們。

Sometimes if the partied work together some form of contact may be necessary but it cannot continue to be on an emotional level.

有時候出于某種工作上的合作關系，一些接觸在所難免，但是這些接觸絕不可以摻雜情感成分。

Outraged as they may be with BP, rivals so far have done little to unwind the business partnerships that bind the industry.

雖然各家石油公司對BP的作為十分憤慨，但迄今他們還沒有解除與BP的行業合作伙伴關系。

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

如今就當辦成這事。既有愿作的心，也當照你們所有的去辦成。

To put it mildly, like the other two conflicts, getting in may be a lot easier than getting out, despite all rhetoric to the contrary.

說得委婉些，像其他兩場沖突，陷入要比脫離更容易，盡管許多動聽之言來自反面。

The day may not be far off, then, when a dicky heart can be serviced in mid-life and made good for a few more years.

這樣一來，距離患病的心臟可以在中年接受維修、并在接下來的一些年里保持健康的那一天就不遠了。

Ominously for Beijing, the value of the RMB may be one of the few things the fractious American political class seems to agree on.

對于北京來說很不利的是，人民幣價值是乖張的美國政界一致認為應該改變的少數問題之一。

Some people may regard the sixth Disney theme park in Shanghai as the cultural invasion or to be more serious, cultural crusher.

一些人可能會把上海的第六個迪斯尼樂園視之為文化侵略或更嚴重地說，文化粉碎機。

Poverty may be miserable. But being able to feel a bit better-off than someone else makes it a bit more bearable.

貧困可能很悲催.但是只要感覺還有人比自己差就能繼續忍受。

The motion of the shell due to an impulsive pressure may be examined in the same fashion as in the case of the cylinder problem.

由脈沖式的壓強引起的球殼的運動，可以按照在圓管問題中所用的同一方式來進行分析。

He may now strike across the mountains for his own village, and no one shall look for his trace.

現在他該翻過山回老家去了，沒有人跟蹤他。

You may walk(it is possible to walk)for miles and miles among the hills without meeting anyone.

你可能在山區走許多里路而遇不到任何人。

If people praise them or thank them in an especially courteous way, they may become embarrassed and not know what to say in reply.

遇到別人特別客氣的稱贊或道謝時，他們可能難為情而不知道該答什么話好。

Spirit levels on the gyro may be used to determine whether the instrument has settled with a list.

陀螺上的氣泡水準儀可用以確定儀表的放置是否傾斜。

Hobbes in his political and legal doctrines advocated a form of government which may be described as "enlightened absolutism. "

霍布斯在其政治、法律理論中提倡一種可以稱之為“開明專制主義”的政體。

May I digress from our discussions for a moment and remind you that the train leaves at ten o'clock.

我可以暫時打斷一下討論嗎，我要提醒你，火車10點開。

It may be helpful to have a more detailed understanding of the customs usually followed in the United States.

你能夠對美國一般的習俗有比較詳盡的認識、也是有所裨益的。

As he had maintained his power without becoming unpopular, it may be presumed that he had exercised some wisdom.

由于他維持了自己的權力，又沒有變得不受人歡迎，我們可以認為，他是運用了相當的智慧的。

Cephalic muscles may be divided into(a) cervical muscle(b)muscles of the mouthparts, and(c)muscles of the antenna.

頭部肌肉可分為（a）頸肌（b）口器肌肉和（c）觸角肌。

You or any other man with eyes in his head may see that.

無論你或者任何一個頭上生著眼睛的人都會看得明白。

Spread of the disease may result from the failure of the hygiene barrier at any one of a number of such a point.

本病的蔓延可能是由上述各個方面的任何一個衛生防范措施的失誤所引的。

In the United States, since the hostess is also likely to be cook, she may be busy until the last moment preparing the meal.

在美國，女主人很可能要自己下廚，她為了準備菜肴，也許要忙到最后一刻。

Whether this was due to Sir Omicron Pie is a question on which it may be well not to offer an opinion.

這是不是虧了奧米克龍·派爵士，這是一個我們最好不要發表意見的問題。

I may be under a bit of a cloud at present, but I will not be laughed at by a woman like you!

我寧愿馬上遭受風險，也決不讓你這樣的女人來嘲笑我！

The police may be able to make him cough out his story.

警察也許能使他供出他的罪行。

The blame may lie where it ought to lie, and nowhere else, for I wash my hands of every part of it.

那罪過可以由該受罰的人去擔當，不要加在別人身上，我對于這事不再過問了。

We may assume that the meanings of these underwater sounds correspond closely to these with which we are familiar on land.

我們可以假定水下聲音和陸地上我們熟悉的聲音含意相似。

A person may have a thorough knowledge of his subject, and yet unable to get it over to an audience.

一個人或許對他的專業了解得很徹底，可他卻不能對別人解釋清楚。

By changing the upper five bits to any other code, other port addresses may be generated.

把高5位改為任何其他碼，即可產生其他端口的地址。

Hitler's experts may well have told him that this form of attack would compass our ruin.

希特勒的專家們一定告訴了他，這種襲擊方法可以置我們于死地。

Even with the new kind of display, correlation of reflections is not always as simple as it may appear.

即使采用這種新型顯示方式，反射波的對比往往亦非易事。

After a pause she said, with a just perceptible chill in her voice: "May asked you to take care of me? "

停了一會兒，她語氣略顯冷淡地說：“是梅請你來照顧我的吧？”

"Here! You may nurse it a bit, if you like! " the duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke.

“喂，你愿意的話，也可以抱他一會兒！”公爵夫人一邊對阿麗思說，一邊就把孩子向她扔了過去。

If it remains a while uncertain to whom the merit belongs, someone more vain than yourself may be encouraged to claim it.

當榮譽一時尚未確定歸屬的時候，某些虛榮心比你更強的人就會躍躍欲試，把榮譽據為己有。

It has been raining heavily in the last few days and mountain torrents may become a danger at any moment. We must be prepared.

連續下了幾天大雨，隨時有暴發山洪的危險，要做好準備。

We may have several episodes in which most of the mass is now upon one of the stars, now upon the other.

我們可能已知道了幾個片斷，大部分質量忽而在這顆星上，忽而在那顆星上。

I'll only take her home for a week, then, that I may see how my daughters and she agree.

那么我只要她先在我家里住一個星期，看看我的女兒同她能不能合得來。

"A bad Easter and a bad year to you, and may you die by the sword! " she burst out.

“讓你復活節不得好過，這個年頭不得好過，還得死在刀下！”她破口大罵。

Material falling toward the surface of a star will become compressed and heated, shock waves may form.

落到星體表面的物質會被壓縮和加熱，可以形成沖擊波。

The system each operation station is entire transparent, between them may realize mutually substitutes.

系統各操作站是全透明的，它們之間可以實現互相替代。

But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the industry is in it for themselves.

然而今天，一名女銀行家卻挑戰了公眾認為這一行業“人人為己”的普遍觀點。

If you try different tactics and nothing seems to work, you may want to consider a medical check-up for irritable bowel syndrome.

如果你嘗試不同的戰術，好像沒去上班，你可能想考慮進行體檢，腸易激綜合癥。

Some phone messages may have been deleted to make room for more messages, giving her family false hope that she was still alive.

一些電話信息可能被刪除，為更多信息騰出空間，這給了她的家人虛假的希望，認為她還活著。

It may be a question of being in the right place at the right time. It could be accidental.

如何在合適的地點，合適的時間發生，這可能是個問題。它可能是個意外。

'But it is a real shame to see that some may not achieve lifelong ambitions because of a lack of faith in their own ability.

不過，看到有些人可能因為對自己沒信心而未能實現終身愿望，也著實讓人感到慚愧。

If it was, they may have learned a lesson in good neighbourliness, at least.

如果真是如此，那么中國人至少在他們的好鄰居那上了一課。

The council may be preparing for a modest revision of the results, giving Mr Mousavi a few more votes, probably in a few days' time.

可能也就在數天時間內，委員會就已經做好了對選票數量稍微進行調整的準備，象征性地給穆薩維增加些許選票。

As you may have noticed, the hidden operating system appears to be installed on the same partition as the original operating system.

可能您已經注意到了，隱形操作系統看起來是安裝到原始操作系統所在的分區。

Besides, he may be socked for damages if he omits a test that a lawyer subsequently convinces a jury might have been useful.

其次，如果他漏了哪一項，可能成為今后律師說服陪審團的有力武器，使得他要賠款。

And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.

耶穌對他們說，我們可以往別處去，到鄰近的鄉村，我也好在那里傳道。因為我是為這事出來的。

Yeah. You are quite right. I may have aches and pains all over the body, perhaps I can lose two or three pounds.

對，說得對，我可能會全身都痛，不過我也可能減肥兩、三磅呢。

Some of them are legitimate firsts, like the president's online town hall at the White House in May.

其中某些東西確屬首創，比如五月份白宮的總統在線座談會。

Perhaps she may add vaguely that she has been a trifle extravagant, but it will never occur to her that she has actually wasted $760.

也許她會含糊地說也有些奢侈，但她永遠也不會意識到實際上她浪費了760英鎊。

At this point of the story, some people may say that Confucius was pretentious and ill-mannered , or consider Confucius to lack compassion.

故事到此，有人可能說孔子虛偽無禮，或者認為孔子缺乏慈悲心。

Yes, however you may feel the effects of a rapid detoxification and be nauseous for a day or two.

可以。不過可能會有些副作用，比如說有一兩天你可能會感到想嘔吐…

and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma.

這一次愛瑪說不定也列了一個很好的書單，可我不敢指望她會持之以恒地讀書了。

Their face may be red and look swollen, or very white and tight looking with lips drawn back (a sort of human version of a dog snarling! ).

他們的臉可能漲得通紅，好象腫了一樣，也可能臉色蒼白，面部緊斂，嘴唇緊收（有點兒象狗咆哮時的模樣！）

The inserts themselves could be very fast, but there may be an access plan problem for the SELECT which slows down the whole statement.

insert本身是非常快的，但是SELECT可能存在一個訪問計劃問題，這個問題會拖慢整個語句。

The results may also explain why therapy seems to be the least effective for couples with the most severe problems.

這個結果也可以解釋為什么對于那些有著嚴重問題的夫婦，治療總是最沒效的。

It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity.

這是一個可由哀愁變為狂喜而又不引起任何嚴重不協調感的夜晚。

Some of these early steps in the development of life may have taken place in interstellar gas clouds before the solar system formed.

生命發展的某些早期過程可能早在太陽系形成以前的星際氣體云中就已發生。

It may be difficult to be a hero in the Western world these days, under the searching eyes of a critical society.

如今西方世界社會上的人愛吹毛求疵，要在眾目昭彰之下當英雄也許不容易。

It may be promised that his tastes will be very different from those of the archdeacon.

我們可以假定，他的愛好和副主教大不相同。

In a small hotel or motel, all of these different functions may be handled by one or two people.

在規模不大的旅館或汽車旅館，這些工作可能統統由一兩個人來做。

I may forget love of my own life in the desire to kill you.

我就會置自己的生死于度外，要殺死你的。

Any one may guess how readily such a proposal would be accepted by men in their condition.

任何人都猜想，處在他們這種情況的人，對于這個建議，當然樂于接受。

The civil engineering contractor may need to lay out his own casting yard.

土木工程承包者可能需要設置自己的預制場。

Married men of forty are usually ready generous enough to fling glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.

四十歲的已婚男人通常都會毫不遲疑也毫不吝惜地朝他在路上偶爾看見的任何一個略有幾分姿色的女人匆匆掃上幾眼。

Several examples may illustrate the lack of clarity even among the great immediate successors of Newton and Leibniz.

有幾個例子可以說明：即使Newton和Leibniz的卓越的直接繼承人也缺乏明晰性。