参考词典中possibility的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 可能性,可能的事
词形变化
- 复 数:pos·si·bil·i·ties
参考例句
- We woke to the possibilities of the new invention.
我们意识到这种新发明各种可能的用途。 - The possibility of food poisoning has been excluded.
食物中毒的可能性已被排除。 - I merely advance a possibility.
我只不过提出一种可能性而已。 - We can discount the possibility that they will support us.
我们可以排除他们会支持我们的可能性。 - Used to indicate possibility or probability.
用于表示可能性或者或必然性.
- We woke to the possibilities of the new invention.
英英解释
4个名词解释
- a future prospect or potential
[例]- this room has great possibilities
- capability of existing or happening or being true
[同] possibility, possibleness
[反] impossibility, impossibleness
[例]- there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired
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- a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
[同] hypothesis, possibility, theory
[例]- a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory
- he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices
- a possible alternative
[同] opening, possibility, possible action
[例]- bankruptcy is always a possibility
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