might-have-been

might-have-been

美 　英

• n.本来可能发生的事；未遂心愿的事
• 网络可成功而未成功的人；可实现；可能已经去过了

词形变化

复数：might-have-beens  

英汉双解

英汉解释

n.	1. 本来或许可以发生的事情;本来或许可以有所成就的人

英英解释

n.	1. something that you wish had happened

例句

The snow men might have been the only folks happy to be caught in another blizzard on Thursday.

堆雪人成了在星期四另一场暴风雪中人们唯一的乐趣。

That might have been a bit ahead of its time -- "globalism" didn't even enter the Oxford English Dictionary until 1986.

这样的情节在当时或许太超前了，“全球主义”这个词直到1986年才被收入牛津英语词典。

It is possible that if a different host was used, a different set of untransferable genes might have been identified.

如果用不同的宿主做研究，可能会被发现一组不同的无法转移的基因。

For some of the projects, this might have been appropriate if done with sufficient planning and an appropriate automation framework.

有一些项目，这也许已经是很不错的了，可能做了充分的计划和一个合适的自动化框架。

Mr. Hayashi said he and others might have been lured into a false sense of security.

林先生说，他和其他人可能被骗进了一种虚假的安全感。

If he had had more common sense in spending, he might have been out of the woods financially by now.

如果他在花錢方面多些常識，他就老早脫離經濟困難。

The outburst might have been generated by a star torn to shreds when it ventured too close to a black hole in its host galaxy, he suggests.

他猜测，这次爆炸可能是因为一颗被撕成碎片的恒星过于靠近其所在星系的一个黑洞引起的。

True, money and other resources might have been a little bit tight recently.

的确，金钱和其他资源可能最近有点紧。

"Or it might have been fun for the male at least. "

“或者至少对雄性来说也许是有趣的。”

Indeed, seeing that his expenditure was only one-fourth of his income, he might have been called a prosperous man.

因为他的进款，只用四分之一就够他用度了，所以他实在可以算得上是一个发财的人。

which some military experts suggested might have been something of a damp squib.

朝鲜已提高了核能力——一些军事专家认为。

One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep.

在床上的那三个人中，有一个靠在墙上，闭着眼睛，好象睡着了。

Jesus wasn't specifically addressing America with these words, though he might have been.

耶稣这些话并非针对美国而言，尽管也有可能。

The urbane and intellectual James Jesus Angleton might have been a great literary critic or editor had things turned out differently.

若是换了环境的话，彬彬有礼、智力超群的詹姆斯·耶稣安格尔顿有可能会成为一个伟大的文学评论家或编辑。

She said it might have been all right, if the weather had been good.

她说如果当时天气好，就没问题了。

The bank declined to comment on how any inside information might have been leaked to one of its employees.

该行拒绝评论内幕信息可能以何种方式泄露给了它的一位雇员。

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

我们作基督的使徒，虽然可以叫人尊重，却没有向你们或向别人求荣耀，

The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

该页面无法找到您正在寻找的页面可能已经删除，更名或暂时不可用。

A caddy retracted his statement, and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken.

一个球童收回了他的话，唯一的另一个见证人也承认他可能搞错了。

"A Widow's Story" is an affecting portrait of anguish, but it might have been a richer story of love and loss.

《一个寡妇的故事》是一幅令人感动的关于丧痛的画像，不过它[color=#0000ff]本可以更丰富一些，成为一本关于爱与失去的故事。

This might have been a happy meeting.

那这回就真是喜庆团圆了。

I suppose it might have been formerly her mother's.

我猜这可能是她母亲以前的东西。

Roberta now put the box on the table, all the zest that might have been joined with it completely banished.

罗伯塔把盒子往桌子上一放，这件礼物原来可能激起的热情，早已烟消云散了。

His manner might have been called severe, though really it was more cultivated than austere.

他的举止可以说是很严肃的，虽然实际上说庄严还不如说文雅更妥切一些。

If he had gone on instead of going back the whole course of English history might have been changed.

如果当时他不撤军而继续前进的话，整个英国的历史进程就会改观。

Even their escape might have been hazardous.

即使能够脱逃，亦是颇为危险的。

Two years ago the problem made it to the U. S. Supreme Court, in a case that might have been called U. S. Navy v. Whales.

两年前，这个问题报上到美国最高法院，案件被称为“美国海军对抗鲸鱼”。

If I had stuck to my writing, I might have been all right.

如果我专心写作，可能会安然无事。

by exertion of a very unusual degree of activity and courage, an entrance into the window, from the rod, might have been effected.

还有一点也很清楚，只有身手异常矫健和大胆，才可能从避雷针爬进窗里。

However, that might have been, the silence was not very prolonged. He took another oblique step.

不管怎样，沉默的局面很快就被打破了。他转弯抹角地重新开始了。

HAD a young woman not drowned in his car, he might have been president.

如果不是一个年轻女子溺死在他的车里，他也许会成为总统。

"What if I had done a little better on that question. . . how the outcome might have been different? " -Of course.

“如果我在这个问题上表现更好一点…结果是否会不同呢？”-当然。

Beijing has missed opportunities that might have been grasped by a more open society.

北京错过了一个更为开放的社会也许能够抓住的机会。

But for a slight rhythmic movement of the cartridge box at the back of his belt he might have been thought to be dead.

要不是腰部皮带上的子弹盒有节奏地轻微起伏着，人们还会以为他已经死去了。

The defence minister said the explosion might have been caused by a mine laid by North Korea during the Korean war, from 1950-53.

国防部长表示，爆炸可能是由于1950~1953年朝鲜战争期间遗留在朝鲜的炸弹引致的。

To us, this looks like the government is using the records request as a tactic to ferret out who else might have been involved in the leak.

对我们来说，看起来政府要求得到地址是一种策略，顺藤摸瓜找到维基解密事件中还有谁参与其中。

The unusual cold might have been driven at least partly by the Arctic Oscillation (AO).

这不寻常寒冷的一部分原因可能由于是北极涛动（AO）。

In 2009, the state's prisons averaged nearly a death a week that might have been prevented or delayed with better medical care.

2009年，该州的监狱中死亡，平均将近一个可能是可以避免或推迟一周更好的医疗服务。

"Follow the money" might have been the mantra for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in investigating the Watergate scandal.

“跟着钱走”或许是鲍勃•伍德沃德（BobWoodward）和卡尔•伯恩斯坦（CarlBernstein）在调查水门丑闻时的口号。

The former she hoped at last might have been accidental, and the latter she could only attribute to her own stupidity.

对于前者，她最终希望或许是偶然现象，对于后者，她只能归咎于她自己太愚钝。

A thread can simultaneously hold more than one lock, and these locks might have been acquired in a certain order.

一个线程可以同时持有多个锁，并且可能已经按某种顺序获得了这些锁。

A field audit investigation might have been conducted in relation to cases falling within the above categories.

本局有可能就上述三类个案进行实地审核调查。

Just think what I might have been able to achieve!

我本来是可以为许多目标的实现而庆贺。

His face was scarred, and something that might have been a burn marred his jaw and left cheek.

他的脸上满是让人畏惧的表情，火烧的伤痕占据了他的下巴和左脸颊。

The burial might have had a marker for rediscovery, or it might have been intended as an offering hidden forever to all but their gods.

这个窖藏可能还有为了被重新发掘而设的标志，或者这只是为了表达他们对他们自己神祗的敬仰而永远埋藏的明器。

Yes, I think she might have been trying to smirt with me.

是的，我以为她是来问我借火的。