may

may

美 [meɪ] 　英 [meɪ]

• modalv.可能；（转折前所述情况属实）也许；（征求同意或表示允许）可以
• n.山楂花

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

销售以上产品的公司或许可以考虑插手音乐服务的定价以报答消费者的信任。

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《社会与临床心理学》杂志中发表的新研究表明，和前任发生性关系并没有你想的那么糟糕。

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.

爱米利娅要是他果然说了这样的话，愿他恶毒的灵魂每天一分一寸地糜烂！他全然胡说；她对于她的最卑鄙的男人是太痴心了。

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

如果你喜欢坐在咖啡馆里用不太安全的无线网络上网，Google此举可能让你省去了一些烦恼。

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

儿童通常容易移动，护士也许能够轻易地将儿童扶至坐位。

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

单侧骨重建一个齿状颌骨肿瘤切除后可能会恢复种植体和可摘局部义齿。

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

我不知道这位可敬的议员对这个问题会不会还保留原有的一些偏见。

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.

你虽然把焦点放在文本的某一刹那，但可以发挥你所知道的作者资料，还有作者在其他地方选择描述的特定时刻。

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：我可能在这个时候爆发了，但是我已经不知所措了，是的，我请你出去。

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

最后，我们可以记住行为人的罪过可能因为可恕的环境而通常被减轻。

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

我想你们可能误解了，我的意思是我完全接受你们的建议。

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.

他们有工具试图抵御通缩，也确实应该使用它们。

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

有时候出于某种工作上的合作关系，一些接触在所难免，但是这些接触绝不可以掺杂情感成分。

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

虽然各家石油公司对BP的作为十分愤慨，但迄今他们还没有解除与BP的行业合作伙伴关系。

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.

如今就当办成这事。既有愿作的心，也当照你们所有的去办成。

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.

说得委婉些，像其他两场冲突，陷入要比脱离更容易，尽管许多动听之言来自反面。

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.

这样一来，距离患病的心脏可以在中年接受维修、并在接下来的一些年里保持健康的那一天就不远了。

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

对于北京来说很不利的是，人民币价值是乖张的美国政界一致认为应该改变的少数问题之一。

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

一些人可能会把上海的第六个迪斯尼乐园视之为文化侵略或更严重地说，文化粉碎机。

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

贫困可能很悲催.但是只要感觉还有人比自己差就能继续忍受。

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.

由脉冲式的压强引起的球壳的运动，可以按照在圆管问题中所用的同一方式来进行分析。

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

现在他该翻过山回老家去了，没有人跟踪他。

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

你可能在山区走许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.

遇到别人特别客气的称赞或道谢时，他们可能难为情而不知道该答什么话好。

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

陀螺上的气泡水准仪可用以确定仪表的放置是否倾斜。

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、法律理论中提倡一种可以称之为“开明专制主义”的政体。

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

我可以暂时打断一下讨论吗，我要提醒你，火车10点开。

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

你能够对美国一般的习俗有比较详尽的认识、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.

由于他维持了自己的权力，又没有变得不受人欢迎，我们可以认为，他是运用了相当的智慧的。

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

头部肌肉可分为（a）颈肌（b）口器肌肉和（c）触角肌。

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

无论你或者任何一个头上生着眼睛的人都会看得明白。

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个方面的任何一个卫生防范措施的失误所引的。

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

在美国，女主人很可能要自己下厨，她为了准备菜肴，也许要忙到最后一刻。

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

这是不是亏了奥米克龙·派爵士，这是一个我们最好不要发表意见的问题。

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

我宁愿马上遭受风险，也决不让你这样的女人来嘲笑我！

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

警察也许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.

那罪过可以由该受罚的人去担当，不要加在别人身上，我对于这事不再过问了。

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

我们可以假定水下声音和陆地上我们熟悉的声音含意相似。

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

一个人或许对他的专业了解得很彻底，可他却不能对别人解释清楚。

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

把高5位改为任何其他码，即可产生其他端口的地址。

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

希特勒的专家们一定告诉了他，这种袭击方法可以置我们于死地。

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

即使采用这种新型显示方式，反射波的对比往往亦非易事。

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

停了一会儿，她语气略显冷淡地说：“是梅请你来照顾我的吧？”

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

“喂，你愿意的话，也可以抱他一会儿！”公爵夫人一边对阿丽思说，一边就把孩子向她扔了过去。

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

当荣誉一时尚未确定归属的时候，某些虚荣心比你更强的人就会跃跃欲试，把荣誉据为己有。

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

连续下了几天大雨，随时有暴发山洪的危险，要做好准备。

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

我们可能已知道了几个片断，大部分质量忽而在这颗星上，忽而在那颗星上。

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个星期，看看我的女儿同她能不能合得来。

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

“让你复活节不得好过，这个年头不得好过，还得死在刀下！”她破口大骂。

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

落到星体表面的物质会被压缩和加热，可以形成冲击波。

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

系统各操作站是全透明的，它们之间可以实现互相替代。

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，一名女银行家却挑战了公众认为这一行业“人人为己”的普遍观点。

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

如果你尝试不同的战术，好像没去上班，你可能想考虑进行体检，肠易激综合症。

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

一些电话信息可能被删除，为更多信息腾出空间，这给了她的家人虚假的希望，认为她还活着。

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

如何在合适的地点，合适的时间发生，这可能是个问题。它可能是个意外。

'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.

不过，看到有些人可能因为对自己没信心而未能实现终身愿望，也着实让人感到惭愧。

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

如果真是如此，那么中国人至少在他们的好邻居那上了一课。

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.

可能也就在数天时间内，委员会就已经做好了对选票数量稍微进行调整的准备，象征性地给穆萨维增加些许选票。

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

可能您已经注意到了，隐形操作系统看起来是安装到原始操作系统所在的分区。

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，如果他漏了哪一项，可能成为今后律师说服陪审团的有力武器，使得他要赔款。

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

耶稣对他们说，我们可以往别处去，到邻近的乡村，我也好在那里传道。因为我是为这事出来的。

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

对，说得对，我可能会全身都痛，不过我也可能减肥两、三磅呢。

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

其中某些东西确属首创，比如五月份白宫的总统在线座谈会。

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.

也许她会含糊地说也有些奢侈，但她永远也不会意识到实际上她浪费了760英镑。

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，有人可能说孔子虚伪无礼，或者认为孔子缺乏慈悲心。

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

可以。不过可能会有些副作用，比如说有一两天你可能会感到想呕吐…

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.

这一次爱玛说不定也列了一个很好的书单，可我不敢指望她会持之以恒地读书了。

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! ).

他们的脸可能涨得通红，好象肿了一样，也可能脸色苍白，面部紧敛，嘴唇紧收（有点儿象狗咆哮时的模样！）

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可能存在一个访问计划问题，这个问题会拖慢整个语句。

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

这个结果也可以解释为什么对于那些有着严重问题的夫妇，治疗总是最没效的。

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

这是一个可由哀愁变为狂喜而又不引起任何严重不协调感的夜晚。

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

生命发展的某些早期过程可能早在太阳系形成以前的星际气体云中就已发生。

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

如今西方世界社会上的人爱吹毛求疵，要在众目昭彰之下当英雄也许不容易。

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

我们可以假定，他的爱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.

在规模不大的旅馆或汽车旅馆，这些工作可能统统由一两个人来做。

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

我就会置自己的生死于度外，要杀死你的。

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

任何人都猜想，处在他们这种情况的人，对于这个建议，当然乐于接受。

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

土木工程承包者可能需要设置自己的预制场。

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

四十岁的已婚男人通常都会毫不迟疑也毫不吝惜地朝他在路上偶尔看见的任何一个略有几分姿色的女人匆匆扫上几眼。

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

有几个例子可以说明：即使Newton和Leibniz的卓越的直接继承人也缺乏明晰性。