might
美 [maɪt]
英 [maɪt] 
- auxv.可能;可以;也许;该
- modalv.可以;(表示可能性)可能;(用于有礼貌地提出建议)可以
- n.威力;强大力量
- 网络能力;势力;强权
同义词
英汉双解
1. | (may 的过去式,用于间接引语)可能,可以used as the past tense ofmay when reporting what sb has said |
| He said he might come tomorrow. 他说他明天可能来。 |
2. | (表示可能性)可能used when showing that sth is or was possible |
| He might get there in time, but I can't be sure. 他有可能准时到达,但我不敢肯定。 |
| I know Vicky doesn't like the job, but I mightn't find it too bad. 我知道维基不喜欢这工作,但我也许并不觉得它很差。 |
| The pills might have helped him, if only he'd taken them regularly. 他当时要是按时服药,也许可以对他有帮助的。 |
| He might say that now(= it is true that he does) , but he can soon change his mind. 他现在也许会那么说,但他很快就会改变主意。 |
3. | (用于有礼貌地提出建议)可以used to make a polite suggestion |
| You might try calling the help desk. 你可以试着给服务台打个电话。 |
| I thought we might go to the zoo on Saturday. 我觉得周六我们可以去动物园。 |
4. | (用于有礼貌地提出请求)可以used to ask permission politely |
| Might I use your phone? 我可以用一下你的电话吗? |
| If I might just say something… 要是叫我说… |
5. | (用于询问)used to ask for information |
| How might the plans be improved upon? 这些计划还能怎么改进呢? |
| And who might she be? 那么她会是谁呢? |
6. | (对某人未做某事表示不满)应该used to show that you are annoyed about sth that sb could do or could have done |
| I think you might at least offer to help! 我认为你至少应该主动提出帮忙吧! |
| Honestly, you might have told me! 说实话,你事先应该告诉我呀! |
7. | (表示不感意外)used to say that you are not surprised by sth |
| I might have guessed it was you! 我猜就是你! |
8. | (强调提出了重点)used to emphasize that an important point has been made |
| ‘And where is the money coming from?’ ‘You might well ask!’ “钱又从哪里来呢?”“你这就问到点子上了!” |
1. | [u] 强大力量;威力great strength, energy or power |
| America's military might 美国的军事力量 |
| I pushed the rock with all my might . 我用尽全力推这块石头。 |
习惯用语
might is right
强权即公理having the power to do sth gives you the right to do it
| Their foreign policy is based on the principle that ‘might is right’. 他们的外交政策遵循“强权即公理”的原则。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Most countries have got at least somewhere on this, chiefly in what might be called i-government: the provision of information.
许多国家在这方面至少有了一些进展,主要在被称为信息政府(i-government)的信息提供方面。
"I might be, " said the tiger. "But I'm not. Now: I am here to teach the girl-cub to talk. "
“我可以撒谎,”老虎说,“但是我并没有说谎。言归正传,我是来教那个小姑娘说话的。”
By the time you come to work your colleagues might have gone through several such iterations before you are even aware of it.
当您回到工作中来的时候,您的同事可能在您没有发觉之前,已经经过了许多这样的迭代。
If it turns out to be technically and economically sound, the laser might prove to be a major breakthrough in telephone communication.
要是激光在技术上可靠,在经济上又有利的话,那么,它就可能成为电话通讯方面的一个重要突破。
So it's easy to understand why consumers might opt for the lower-cost counterfeit.
这就是消费者为何选择低成本的仿冒品的原因了。
Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin.
差一点百姓中就有人与你妻子同睡,叫我们陷于罪恶。
As I pondered Rowbottom's words, it occurred to me that the converse might also be true.
在我考虑罗巴敦的话的时候,我突然想到相反的事情可能也是对的。
It seemed for a time as if an inconclusive election might see Britain's new prime minister fall at the final fence.
在经历了一场未产生多数党的大选后,人们有段时间似乎觉得,英国的新首相最终将无法产生。
Dr. Adams : Well , this might seem a little unusual, but moving around while trying to learn and memorize material helps me a great deal.
这看起来有点不同,但是当你试着去学什么并想记住他们,不停地移动将会给你很大的帮助。
The suspension might have saved the project, as some sources said a vote could have ruled it out.
这个暂停可能拯救了该项目,因为有消息说投票可能把它否决。
Within three days, however, he had some movement again in his arms and legs. How much he might recover is still not clear.
三天不到,他的手和腿稍有活动了,然而他到底能恢复到什么程度还不清楚。
This might be caused by an authentication problem between the monitor server instance and the secondary server instance.
这可能是由于监视服务器实例和辅助服务器实例之间的身份验证问题引起的。
As you read through some of these descriptions, you might have recognized a few traits within your own organization or project.
在读完了这些描述之后,您可能认识到自己的组织或项目中的一些特点。
You might feel that the very repetitive nature of the test methods indicates that some refactoring should be possible.
您可能认为测试方法的高重复性特性指示能够进行某种的重构。
You might have been able to make a guess at who she was.
猜测?你本来能够猜到她是谁。
She might be a dwarf, but she was also a woman, and women were bad luck aboard ship.
她是个侏儒没错,但她同时也是个女人,而带女人船会招致厄运。
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance ; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
这城中所流的血倒在净光的磐石上,不得掩盖,乃是出于我,为要发忿怒施行报应。
He is quite unfit to be seen. He might have borrowed my razor to get rid of all that stubble on his face.
他那副模样真没法见人,他本来可以借我的剃刀刮掉那一脸邋遢的胡子。
An application hitting one of these limits might be impacted, but at least it has the opportunity to respond sensibly to the problem.
遇到这些软限制的应用程序可能会受到影响,但至少有机会敏感地响应问题。
He was in general uneasy about any process of negotiation; he hated to put himself into a position where he might be rebuffed.
总的说来,任何谈判过程都使他感到忐忑不安;他非常不喜欢使自己处在可能失败的地位。
I've been a line guy all my life, which might have made it easier.
我一辈子都是个业务人员,所以觉得这种事比较容易。
"You might feel stronger, in an hour or two, " I said.
“过一两个钟头,您就会觉得硬朗些,”我说。
Once escaped from the reach of his mother's recalling voice, he thought he might venture to indulge his curiosity.
他觉得现在已经走出了他母亲叫唤声的范围,理该满足一下自己的好奇心了。
It seemed that all the declarations, true or boastful, of German might have by no means convinced the Japanese envoy.
看来,关于德国威力的一切陈述,无论是事实还是夸张,都没有使这位日本特使信服。
For him it was not enough that there might be disorders of the body that originated in the brain.
在他看来,单是认为大脑可能导致身体变化这一点还不够。
On this account he might, in certain lights, have been regarded as one of the most fortunate of his order.
由于这个原因,从某些方面来看,他也许会被认为是他的同类中最幸运的人。
This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time.
这可能也是此时我们意见相左的开始。
You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did.
你不能等待涌现出真正的农民领袖,而等他出现的时候,他的农民习气可能太多。
A chit like that would scarcely presume to give herself airs with the Rector of her parish, however rich she might be.
那样一个黄毛丫头不管多么富有是不大敢对其教区教区长摆什么架子的。
He thought of the great harm that might be done through the printing of bad books.
他想到印坏书可能带来巨大的危害。
He fell there on his hands and knees to check himself, for that rock was small and he might have pitched over on the far side.
他落地的时候向前一扑,用双手双膝撑住了身体,要不,岩石那么小,他可能冲过头。
The net charge of a body might be described by a statement of the excess number of electrons or protons in the body.
一个物体所带净电荷的量,可以用在这个物体内的过剩电子数或过剩质子数来表示。
It might be argued that such a method shows that she has not fully assimilated her material.
人们可以说她这样做是因为她对原料没有完全消化。
If there is anything which you suppose his cousin might fairly ask of him, I beg you would not hesitate to employ me.
你如果认为他表弟可以向他提出什么正当的要求,请你毫不犹豫地吩咐我好啦。
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 anxiety mounted that I might be proceeding on a course he did not wish me to follow.
他认为我在执行一项他不愿意我执行的方针,从而更加感到不安。
In spite of youth and wealth and a notable vigor of body, he was a solemn, conservative speculator as to what his future might be.
他虽然年轻、富有、精力充沛,对于他自己的前途却是一个严肃、保守的观察者。
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。
For a while we discussed Berlin, the President rattling off a series of ideas which might constitute part of a negotiating position.
有一段时间我们讨论了柏林问题,总统一口气讲了一连串可能成为谈判立场一部分的想法。
Yet as a lad people had said of him that he was one who might do anything if he tried.
但是在他还是个小伙子的时候,人家都说,他想作什么,就能成什么。
The Baron determined on having the cook sent for, that he might compliment her on her art.
男爵决定叫人把厨师找来,他想夸奖她的好手艺。
He might have spared his compunction, for Catherine had not noticed the lapse.
不过他也大可不必感到不安,因为凯瑟琳根本没有注意到(他说话的)疏忽。
However, if she became difficult he might have to kill her, and he had an aversion to that.
倘若她找他的麻烦,无非再伤一命,但一想到要杀死她,心里总不是滋味。
This might have been a happy meeting.
那这回就真是喜庆团圆了。
David might have shot him first, but David had never before pointed a gun at a human being, let alone killed somebody.
大卫本可能先开枪的,但他过去从未用枪对人瞄准过,更不用说杀人了。
You might have spared me at such a time.
现在你可以饶我一下吧。
If you were to take up professional dancing, I might have to cut you afterward.
如果你要从事职业性跳舞的话,我以后也许得同你断绝关系哩。
You never could suppose from her countenance what pangs of humiliation she might be enduring inwardly.
她心里的委屈,在脸上是一点儿也看不出来的。
Even under the impending edge of the knife of disaster, he might be able to think more, and more, and more.
即使是灾难的刀锋快架到他头上来,他还能多想想,多想想,再想想。
Thus ended Frank Cowperwood's dreams of what Butler and his political associates might do for him in his hour of distress.
这样就结束了法兰克·柯帕乌要巴特勒和他的政治上的伙伴,能在他处境危难的时候帮助他的梦想。
Andy must tend to her every whim without question and with the utmost haste for fear of the retribution she might receive from her boss.
安迪必须倾向于她的每一次心血来潮,毫无疑问,与最匆忙为报复她可能收到来自她的老板。
Some of these pages might not be used for long periods of time, making them good candidates for swapping out.
这些页中有一些可能不是长时间使用,它们应该被交换出去。
Although the name might be a bit boring, this streamlined VW is the first to sport a full hybrid drivetrain.
虽然名字可能有点乏味但这款大众新车型是第一款全混合动力的运动型车。
Hypothetically speaking , I might be able to do your current job as a CEO .
说不定,我也能做你现在的主任的工作呢!
In this rather long letter the woman said that as she was a decorator and I an architect, we might work together.
在这封挺长的信里,那个女人说她是装潢师我是建筑师,我们没准可以合作做点什么。
It might be a good idea if he were deprived of certain privileges until he is ready to tell us the whole story.
我们或许应该取消他的一些特权,直到他把事情原原本本地告诉我们。
And I did not know Him, but in order that He might be manifested to Israel, for this reason I came baptizing in water.
我先前不认识他,但为了叫他显明给以色列人,所以我来在水里施浸。
Now for the unsexy talk of good passwords, which might have prevented at least some Hollywood Leaks attacks, based on the group's claims.
根据一项集体声明,好的密码使不少人免受“好莱坞泄密”组织的攻击。
He's feeling absolutely terrible, and he thinks he might have the flu.
他感觉非常得不好,觉得自己得了流感。
Even somehting as basic and profound as "Don't chew with you mouth open" is not as widely accepted as you might think.
甚至像“不要张着嘴咀嚼”这样基本而深奥的道理,也并不像你想象的那样广为接受。
She understood and I had this paragraph, here is no longer a haven for her, she might have been the woman left.
她明白有过和我的这一段,这里已不再是她的天堂,她可能一直都是剩女。
That might seem ridiculous to ask of an institution like Goldman Sachs, whose third-quarter loss stands out for its rarity value.
这个问题对于像高盛这样在稀缺价值上损失四分之三的机构来说是很可笑的。
Virginia's governor called the blackout in his state its second-largest ever and warned that electricity might not be restored for a week.
弗吉尼亚州州长说,该州这次停电从规模上讲堪称史上第二大,并警告称可能一周内都不会恢复供电。
Since the potential dangers cannot be confirmed until after they occur, it might be wise to take their advice.
既然潜在危险因素在它们产生之前并不能被证实,听取专家们的建议是明智之举。
In that scenario, the state just might achieve the grand bargain that seems to be eluding the rest of the country.
在这种情况下,为了躲避其他州的质疑,加州似乎只能履行共和党的协议。
Next time you are tempted to do something you think you might regret, try reminding yourself that you can say no.
下一次在你试图想做你认为可能会后悔的事情时,请试着提醒自己你能够说不,因为你有这个意志力。
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为你的博客、网站或其他可能使用到图像时,免费存储图片。
some aspects of such a mission might actually be easier than trying to fly a solar sail in low - earth orbit , but others are harder.
同试图让太阳帆运行在低地轨道上相比此类任务的某些方面要容易,但另外一些要困难。
Faced with an economic mess, it might be easier for CEOs to shift operations out of the US instead.
面对糟糕的经济局势,对于CEO而言,将业务迁出美国或许更为容易。
As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life.
等我长大成人之后,我渐渐懂得了这不仅仅是一个小孩的游戏,而且象征着一种人生观。
Its applicability might be questioned on the grounds that carbonaceous shale is not known to occur near any of these deposits.
其实用性是有疑问的,因为还不知道在上述矿床附近存在着碳质片岩。
After the war there might be a bit of stink.
到战后说不定还会有一点流言蜚语。
Had not my effects miscarried, I might have had fortune good enough to him to have kept us from being parted in this manner.
假使我的货物中途没有损坏,我也许拥有相当的财产,就不至于让我们这样子分开了。
If I were better off, I should not stop for a moment to think whose he might be.
如果我的环境好一些,我连一时一刻都不会考虑他到底是谁的儿子。
If there had been no one in the tent, he might have walked over and lifted the blanket.
要是帐篷里没有人的话、他真会走过去揭开毯子。
As it was, the timing might be very opportune.
所以,按计划选定的时间恐怕还是非常及时的。
"If he had but a little more brains, " she thought to herself, "I might make something of him. "
她暗想道:“可惜他太笨,不然我倒可以把他训练得像个样子。”
It has the wisest way, however perilous it might be, to retire with an air of confidence.
尽管十分危险,最聪明的办法还是装作毫不介意地回来。
He was continually coming to her with some tale or other, by which he might creep into favor at the expense of persons maligned.
他总是在不断地向她散播流言蜚语,中伤别人,企图以此博得她的好感。
I was waiting prayerfully for the name of Oscar Zinner to be called even though I knew that this might mean my doom.
我虔诚地等着有人叫奥斯卡·钦纳的名字--虽然也知道,这一叫可能意味着我大祸临头。